With $111 million in capital raised in 2022, reality capture startup OpenSpace is taking its 360° imaging technology to a global construction market.

With a tight labor market and construction still booming in many regions of the country, one category of worker that has felt stretched thin has been equipment operators.

Oracle expands its cloud analytics capabilities, while Procore partners with Amazon on digital twins.

In a sign of continued interest in technologies for tracking work progress and keeping on schedule, Israel-based startup Buildots announced that it has raised $60 million in a Series C funding round.

A Texas toll road operator has turned to the sky for solutions to a very down-to-earth problem: roadway maintenance. 

Materials supply chain disruptions and the mass retirement of older workers in the skilled trades—a trend that actually began in the 2010s—have forced preconstruction professionals and estimators to be more resourceful than ever. 

The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor project involves 35 countries collaborating to build an electricity generation experiment that may lead to renewable energy produced through nuclear fusion, a potentially revolutionary power source.

With the shortage of equipment operators seen in construction today, automation of heavy equipment is gaining ground among large contractors.