ENR’s annual conference draws a crowd looking for better approaches to data security and sharing, with an eye on cost

Growing up in heavy construction, and running projects for his dad during summers, one thing Gregory Penza says he learned is that the only way to compete in construction is to come up with new and better ways to do things.

Study predicts increased automation will displace craftworkers by 2057, but robots can't do everything.

 A New York company and two utilities have a cost-effective solution to the nation’s aging underground infrastructure: a robot that crawls through cast-iron natural-gas pipelines and replaces their deteriorating joints, effectively renewing the pipes for up to 50 years.

In 2015, Stephen Muck was sitting in a Carnegie Mellon University seminar on robotics, and he could not stop thinking about how the technology might benefit the construction industry, which suffers from a labor shortage, especially for backbreaking work like tying rebar. 

Fifteen guest builders-in-residence are taking advantage of new workshop and design space in Boston’s Seaport Innovation District.