With the shortage of equipment operators seen in construction today, automation of heavy equipment is gaining ground among large contractors.

Italian engineers had to assess the tunnel's condition after lying idle for five years in a potentially hazardous environment.

The hard work of hanging, taping and finishing drywall remains one of the more physically demanding tasks in building construction. While other trades in the industry have seen tools and equipment take the strain out of work, drywall work remains largely unchanged. And contractors are well aware of this.

When the pandemic made long-distance business travel difficult or impossible in 2020, many turned to the remote collaboration tools that were available. Video conferencing replaced business meetings.

Contractor will jump from pilots to full deployment of a jobsite robotics platform developed with robotics startup NeXtera.

As wind farms proliferate in more remote onshore and offshore locations, a U.K. startup is deploying self-piloting drones to survey turbine blades and transmit data for detailed images of damage using artificial intelligence.

Boston Dynamics' Brian Ringley offers a perspective on the industry's digital future, including the potential convergence of BIM, digital twins and robotics.

After a successful trial of a railcar-mounted robot to drill holes for tunnel cable racks, the MTA is putting together an open bidding process for vendors to further develop a robot drill rig for use in New York City’s subway tunnels.

New advances in automation, data collection and the perils of too many pilot projects were the top line ideas at the first day of the 2021 ENR FutureTech conference. 

The dog-shaped Spot robot from Boston Dynamics will be available next year with a Trimble laser scanner and GNSS antenna built in, for an out-of-the box autonomous reality capture on jobsites.