Wetlands documentation and compliance app maker Ecobot secured a $2.81-million funding round earlier this month, a sign construction tech investors see value in targeted solutions to specific workflow problems.

In the latest consolidation move in the tightening construction software market, wetlands documentation app company Ecobot announced it has acquired software maker WetForm, one of its main competitors. 

The second of two major sediment diversion projects in Plaquemines Parish, La., is closer to construction following the naming of a contractor to build the $700-million structure that will use mud from the bottom of the Mississippi River to help rebuild the state’s disappearing wetlands.

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