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A young Boston-area start-up, ManufactOn has entered into a non-exclusive partnership with Autodesk, which plans to integrate ManufactOn's cloud and mobile software for optimizing materials and prefabrication supply-chain management with Autodesk's BIM 360 construction management platform. The partnership was announced on Sept. 18.

If initial lessons included in an interim status report on the cause of February’s failure of the main spillway at California’s Oroville Dam are heeded, hundreds of U.S. dams more than 50 years old may have to be re-examined and upgraded.

In the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey’s assault on Texas and Louisiana, drones and small planes equipped with cameras and instruments fill the sky, getting a bird’s-eye view of the destruction.

Images of the Texas coastline, before and after Harvey made landfall, show the scale of devastation in small communities in the path of the storm

Nearmap, which produces high-resolution satellite imagery for construction and engineering firms, governments and utilities, conducted a flyover of Rockport and Ingleside, Texas, north of Corpus Christi on Aug. 31.

As demands for better data access on jobsites grows and the Internet of Things begins to bleed over into construction equipment, tool manufacturers are working to build wireless connectivity into their product lines

Every time a driver hits the road, Big Data comes along for the ride, hitchhiking on cell phones, location-based apps and vehicle hardware.