Software provider told Year in Infrastructure conference attendees Oct. 20 that strategic link will better integrate the tech giant’s Azure cloud system into its existing software to ease data logjam.
Efficiencies in design, construction and building use are being unlocked thanks to analysis and proactive changes informed by construction data. Even 3D printing for a NASA project on structures on Mars is on the table.
“Ideas and solutions are the easy part,” says Ricardo Khan, senior director of innovation at Mortenson Construction. It’s “the process” that is the real challenge. Khan’s midday keynote captured one of the key themes of the second day of the virtual ENR FutureTech conference—the need to identify the problems in your construction process before you start throwing technology at them
The Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority is well into its second phase of testing technologies for automated virtual track inspection on revenue trains on a daily basis—a first for U.S. transit agencies, say officials.
Telematics, wearables, online collaboration, 3D model management tools and the ever-evolving ways contractors collect and use data took center stage in the first day of ENR's all-virtual FutureTech construction technology conference.
After seven years of construction at one of the nation’s busiest port complexes, California’s first vehicular cable-stayed bridge is slated to open to traffic Oct. 5.
A team from throughout Australia, Europe, Asia and South Africa collaborated to deliver unprecedented levels of mobility and transit-oriented development for Sydney via the new 36-km Sydney Metro Northwest.
Winding 41 kilometers through southern Queensland in Australia, the Toowoomba Bypass serves as a vital economic link while boosting mobility and driver safety.