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McCarthy Building Cos. has standardized its subcontractor payments and most financial transactions on Oracle's Textura cloud-based payments platform. 

Sage has acquired Bridgetown Software, the creator of the BidMatrix bid analysis platform. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Since the 2021 passage of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, states have been prepping middle-mile broadband construction projects to help numerous communities with poor or little internet access get connected into expanding national and regional broadband networks.

Any complex construction project generates thousands of pages of documents and specifications, along with a stream of change orders and RFIs.

Kentucky has brought on Stantec for a $25 million contract to use machine learning and other advanced technologies to provide flood risk mapping, assessment and planning services.

Graphisoft continued its strategy of driving software development and product releases through its public roadmap with the launch of several new versions of its popular BIM software, including Archicad, earlier this month.

Oracle unveiled details about its partnership with artificial intelligence provider Cohere at its Oracle Cloud World conference in Las Vegas Sept. 18.

The construction tech firm announced a slate of new and planned offerings, including an AI-based assistant still under development.

As manufacturing facilities for everything from electric vehicle components to the crystalline photovoltaic wafers in solar panels are funded by government incentive as well as private investment, design firms are being called on to redesign production processes dependent on the materials and regulations that long-favored overseas manufacturing.

Public agencies are testing a tool that could take monitoring of bridges and dams to a higher level by using data from drones and sensors in a digital twin.