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Creative Use of Laser Scanning Lets Contractor Speed Flood Gate Complex Construction in New Orleans
02/13/12 By Angelle Bergeron
With creative use of laser scanning, Alberici Constructors has shaved four weeks off its schedule to install two 120-ton steel vertical-lift gates that are part of a $165-million complex designed to block storm surge from entering the eastern flank of New Orleans.

Photo by Aero Photo

New Alignment System for Tunneling Machines To Be Tested
02/01/12 By Luke Abaffy
A New alignment control system for tunnel construction to be tested in Edmonton, Canada in April.

Courtesy University of Alberta

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01/30/12	Magic Box Liberates Apple iOS Access to Legacy Networked Printers By Tom Sawyer ?As elegant as they are, the Apple iPhones and iPads surging into the workplace still have a few rough edges, including the limited number of printers that work with them.
01/30/12	Magic Box Liberates Apple iOS Access to Legacy Networked Printers By Tom Sawyer ?As elegant as they are, the Apple iPhones and iPads surging into the workplace still have a few rough edges, including the limited number of printers that work with them.
01/30/12	Making Dumb Iron Smart by Linking to Data By John Morell Equipment maker delivers operation and service manuals to smart phones and tablets by QR codes and offers to mail stickers to retrofit older equipment.
01/09/12	Cornell Team Snags $2-Billion, High-Tech Project in NYC By Esther D'Amico with Carolina Worrell The proposal for an 11-acre, $2-billion-plus campus on Roosevelt Island beat out several other proposals under the mayor’s Applied Sciences NYC initiative.
12/21/11	LightSquared Pushes for FCC Decision on GPS Network By Jeff Rubenstone LightSquared is pushing the FCC to approve its ground-based satellite network plans, over the objections of the rest of the GPS industry.
12/14/11	FutureTech for Jobsites? CIOs Need to See ROI First. By Robert Carlsen in San Francisco Even though tablets and smart phones are spreading onto jobsites at a swift pace in construction, chief financial officers from major A/E/C firms say technology purchases must come with solid returns on investment, panelists said during the panelists appearing at the ENR FutureTech conference in San Francisco.
12/05/11	Embrace of Technology in Construction Swings With Ages and Attitudes, Survey Finds By Tom Sawyer A report will be available on the CURT website soon, but a peek at the data is provocative.
12/05/11	Make Way for App Builders in Construction By Erin Joyce Smaller firms are looking for ways to create apps for niche sectors in construction.
12/05/11	Top 10 Construction Apps by ENR Readers By Erin Joyce As part of its ongoing review of productivity apps for construction professionals, ENR reached outto its readers, Twitter followers, Facebook friends and other social network users for their favorite construction and productivity apps. Listed here are some of the apps that came through ENR's social graph, including some apps from engineering students at George Mason University. Although byno means complete, the list here will be published and updated online on at ENR.com/technology/social_media with the rest of ENR's ongoing list of curated and reviewed apps for both the Appleand Android platforms. Let us know about apps you like at ENR_Web_Editors@McGraw-Hill.com.
12/05/11	Top Paid and Free Construction Apps By Erin Joyce ENR asked Apple to query its developer community in a quest to help idenfity the most popular construction apps in the App Store. It was a tricky call. Although plenty of apps are considered useful in the A/E/C realm, Apple doesn't have a specific A/E/C category as it does for business and productivity. But it's fair to say that these are among the more noted amid a rise in construction industry apps, and our list is culled from a few categories. Furthermore, the app list comes as Apple is ramping up its volume purchasing program, which the company says can make it easier for construction firms to purchase a suite of essential apps in bulk and then distribute them to staff members in the field, rather than going through the App Store. In the future, ENR will survey the best construction apps for Android platforms.
11/29/11	Employing the Digital Native: Five Keys to Success By Michelle Manafy Digital natives are now becoming the dominant members in the employee and consumer pool and they are expecting older generations to accept their values when interacting with them in business.
11/28/11	Broadband Electromagnetic Scanning Reveals The Inner Secrets of a Pressurized Sewer Line By Tom Sawyer Non-invasive technology allows utilities to remain in service during testing.
11/09/11	LED Jobsite Lighting Systems Come Into Play On Projects in Boston and New York City By Tom Sawyer Two influential customers give LED jobsite lighting systems a chance to strut their stuff
10/31/11	Concrete Standard Reworked to be More Designer-Friendly By Nadine M. Post in Cincinnati The American Concrete Institute building standard is getting its first major overhaul in nearly 45 years.
10/31/11	Concrete Standard Reworked to be More Designer-Friendly By Nadine M. Post in Cincinnati American Concrete Institute building standard getting first major overhaul in nearly 45 years
09/14/11	LightSquared Faces Critics, Floats GPS Plan Changes By Erin Joyce Teaser to come
09/12/11	Nine Noteworthy Apps for Construction By Luke Abaffy ENR reviews nine noteworthy construction-related apps.
09/12/11	Q&A: State of the Slate By Tudor Van Hampton Will tablets stick around on the jobsite? ENR Midwest Bureau Chief Tudor Van Hampton recently caught up over e-mail with Houston Neal, a construction IT expert, about the state of the slate.
09/12/11	Tablets Take Off in Construction By Tudor Van Hampton The iPad changed the game, and construction sites are now buzzing with tablets. How will they play into your mobile strategy?
08/15/11	Japanese Concrete Test Hammer Challenges the U.S. Market By Tom Sawyer The device analyzes the strength of concrete by the waveform of impact force at the point of hammer and concrete contact.
08/01/11	Multivista Keeps Focus on Construction Images and Data By Scott Judy A company franchises a service to integrate digital construction progress photos with plans to create indexed, Web accessible archives.
07/13/11	U.S. Energy Dept. Uses Stimulus Funds to Push Technology Transfer By Carrie McGourty Stimulus funds of over $1 billion are helping to engineer more R&D and construction.
07/06/11	Construction Industry Has Stake in GPS Fight By Tom Sawyer Did GPS industry players leave themselves vulnerable to a new broadband network?
06/30/11	GPS Industry Groups Reject LightSquared's Network Fix By Tom Sawyer and ENR Staff Tech coalition says 4G solution would cause major harm to most GPS equipment already in use around the globe.
06/28/11	Efforts 'To Save Our GPS' Heat up in Congress By Tom Ichniowski More construction industry groups are joining a coalition fighting a planned wireless broadband network that could disrupt their GPS systems.
06/08/11	Digital Building Lab is More Than a Technology Think Tank By Nadine M. Post Fledgling research and development lab at Georgia Tech is dedicated to university and industry partnerships to develop digital tools that can help move the buildings sector forward regarding productivity, safety, quality and project delivery.

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03/09/11 Infrastructure Software Revenue Recovers To Pre-Downturn Levels, Vendor Reports
02/23/11 Laser-Guided Boring System Pinpoints Sewer Piping
12/15/10 Nanomaterial Research May Lead to Safer Site Monitoring
10/27/10 DOE Weighs Use of Robotic Technology To Speed Reactor Demolition at Hanford Site
07/21/10 Cloud Computing Makes the Grade
06/24/10 A Laser With a Twist Captures Lateral Distortion
06/23/10 Planning To Punish Structures With Rain, Hail, Wind and Fire
06/16/10 Water Filtration Unit Is Off-Grid Performer
06/02/10 Opening Up Mechanical Spaces at Showroom, McQuay Demonstrates HVAC Technology
04/28/10 Yahoo Data Center Employs ‘Cool’ Idea
04/14/10 Call the Doctor: New System Captures Structural EKGs
04/07/10 FIATECH at 10: Measurable Management Innovation
10/28/09 New Aerial Lift Featherweight
10/21/09 3-D Tool Rises to the Next Level
08/12/09 Recession Slows Transition To Electronic Permitting
08/05/09 Digital-Modeling Veterans Want Data for Life Cycles
06/17/09 NASA Fuels for Liftoff
04/29/09 Relaxing Embargo Raises Hopes for Cable to Cuba
02/10/09 Multi-Discipline Design Tools Updated With BIM In Mind
09/05/07 Truckers Get More Mileage From Treads That Age Gracefully
07/19/07 Oil Study Pushes Investment In Infrastructure, Technology
03/19/07 Lateral Soil Displacement Gains Ground on U.S. Projects
02/06/07 Stanford's Teicholz Takes Home Turner Prize
01/27/07 Cost Savings, Sustainability Seen in Fiber Reinforcement
09/14/06 Missing Fasteners, Lost in Space
08/08/06 New Firm Looks for Green From Its Green Database
08/08/06 Corps of Engineers Floats Plan for Template Designs
08/02/06 Restored Parachute Jump Lights Up Coney Island
07/31/06 New Re-gasifying Process Expected To Save Producer Millions
02/09/06 Autodesk Boosts Collaboration Market Share With Buyout of Constructware