Sustainability Goals are About Today

When we think about the net zero goals being set around sustainability, it’s important to realize that the targeted year of 2030 is actually today for the built environment. The buildings being built today will affect society and customers’ ability to achieve the targets for net zero carbon in the year 2030 Read more…

AI and the Opportunity Ahead

Paraphrasing from a 2017 VentureBeat article on intellect versus intelligence, the nature of business is that anything that can save a business money will be put to use. In addition, any task that can be broken into sets of instructions can be done by a machine, and machines are becoming exponentially more Read more…

Bridging the Data Gap

The construction industry has a data interoperability problem. When a project is created, the information doesn’t flow into the ERP (enterprise resource planning) system. So, the information has to manually be entered into the ERP. But then that information is not available in the project management system, requiring more manual Read more…

Sustainability Material Trends

If you’re in the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industry, it’s becoming increasingly important for you to become educated on green initiatives and green building products. Consumers and investors in the industry are making more decisions based on sustainability. Large shifts are happening that are affecting competition in the marketplace. Read more…

The Reality of Connected Construction

Construction superintendents have an unbelievable workload. General contractors have hundreds of project workers onsite every day. There are thousands of elements. This kind of information can’t be handled well manually. So more and more companies are looking to artificial intelligence and other innovations to help with construction management. The construction Read more…