If you could foresee construction problems, wouldn’t you prevent them from happening? In the 2002 film “Minority Report,” police use the foreknowledge of psychics called “precogs” to predict and preemptively stop crimes.
Ground Penetrating Radar Systems, based in Toledo, Ohio, provides services that include utility locating, 3D laser scanning, acoustic leak detection, video pipe inspection, underground storage tank locating, concrete scanning and drone imaging.
This triangular site in downtown Denver had long been passed over because of being hemmed in by elevated highways on three sides, leaving only enough room for this 90,000-sq-ft immersive art center to be less than 10 ft from the triangle of highways.
The rise of battery-powered construction equipment has been a slow-but-steady trend over the last few years as manufacturers look to hit carbon-reduction and net-zero targets in the coming decades.
Construction technologists find new ways to save project data that incorporate cloud-based construction project management platforms from vendors such as Autodesk, Bentley, Oracle and Procore.
Some are creating their own data lakes and warehouses, while vendors and contractors search all the data for business intelligence insight.
Esri has expanded its reality capture data management platform to a suite of services that promise to move drone, satellite, site, mesh and point-cloud data into its ArcGIS platform.
James Litwin, vice president of construction at developer Harbor Bay Real Estate Advisors, was intrigued by the possibilities of mass timber construction for residential and mixed use because of his background as a carpenter before he became a development executive.
Embodied carbon is the carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions associated with materials and construction processes through the lifecycle of a building or infrastructure.
The 30,000-sq-ft Oracle Innovation Lab on the company’s Deerfield, Ill., campus has demonstration space for construction technologies ranging from robots to drones to building automation. While it opened in 2019, the pandemic delayed any serious experiments from getting underway until April 2022.