California-based Oracle Corp. on Dec. 17 announced that it has entered into an agreement to buy Melbourne, Australia-based Aconex Ltd., a company that offers a cloud-based system for managing construction-team collaboration, for $7.80 per share in cash.
Typical vendor-sponsored case studies read as self-service marketing, but a new report from ClearEdge3D—a developer of software for making sense out of scan data—stands out because of its many tips for organizing as-built data acquisition using any tools or platforms.
First developed 60 years ago, the critical path method is now common practice among large contractors, and a recent survey of ENR Top 400 Contractors shows that practitioners are applying the tool and unlocking its benefits.