T he 100-km, $19-billion Elizabeth rail line opened in London last month after more than a decade of construction. Teams used a digital workflow to install over 27,000 cladding panels in three of the new stations, reducing needed weight and improving efficiency.

Did you know many data analysts ignore the very first step of analysis? Here’s how doing the data work builds a path for streamlined analysis.

Several years ago, Infotech participated in a high-level market analysis for the state of West Virginia. The initial findings from that analysis launched an investigation that led to a $101.35 million settlement for the state.

Industry experts weigh in on BIM for infrastructure, evolving IFC data standards, IIJA impacts, and more in this exclusive panel discussion.

A sentence that will always be true: the prevalence and utility of construction project data is greater now than it has ever been before.

In my previous blog, we were looking deeper into the Transportation BIM Lifecycle. I brought up some of the underlying tenets of a project, such as permitting, bidding, payment, compliance, analysis, and others that we may get into, like materials.

There have been tens of thousands of blogs over the years about Building Information Modeling (BIM). If we count other communication venues, the number is in the hundreds of thousands, if not millions.

BIM promises a future where all parties can collaborate by sharing project information from initial design through costing, build, delivery and ongoing operations.

When Daniel O’Connell’s Sons won the construction contract in 2018 for the $122-million York Street Pump Station and Connecticut River Crossing project in Springfield, Mass., the owner’s designer, Kleinfelder, suggested pipe jacking to launch three new wastewater conveyance pipelines at the pump station that would run under a railroad and flood wall before crossing the river and passing through a levee to the Springfield Water & Sewer Commission treatment facility in Agawam, Mass.