Here are our picks from the latest construction technology news.
“You look
at 5G wireless, artificial intelligence (AI), augmented reality (AR), these
are going to be three key technologies for your industry,” Michael
Hainsworth, executive producer of Futurithmic and co-host of the Geeks &
Beats podcast, told the audience at a talk billed Future Forward: Three Technologies That Will Change
Our World Forever.
A cost-to-coast BIM survey in Canada received 398 respondents.
Over 80% of the respondents agree that adopting BIM can provide
visualization benefits, but only 54% thinks it improves profitability. This
makes you think whether BIM is still something extra, not a replacement of old
practices for many respondents.
Netherlands
and Vietnam-based social enterprise Upp! is on
a mission to fight the global plastic pollution crisis by closing the
plastic waste loop with a local approach. Using a circular economy
approach, Upp! hopes to save plastic waste from landfills and oceans by introducing circular plastic
factories in 10 cities
by 2025.
Toggle, a
Brooklyn-based 15-person startup that creates robotics that fabricate and
assemble rebar, scored $3 million in seed funding.
The
Construction Industry is Poised for a Data Transformation. This data
transformation has significant legs in construction, as evidenced by a recent report by Dodge Data & Analytics and
Viewpoint: Improving Performance with Project Data.
Check out the 28 cities and projects that will move on as finalists for
the 2019 World Smart City Awards.
News from the LA tech ecosystem: BuildOps integrates
scheduling, dispatching, inventory management, contracts, workflow and
accounting into a single software package for commercial real estate
contractors.
Tide Construction has craned the last of 1,526
modules into place on the world’s tallest modular tower in Croydon.
AI in
construction:
generative design, risk mitigation, safety… An article by Anand Rajagopal, a data scientist at Autodesk.
Alice
Technologies develops an AI-based construction simulation platform. Disperse captures
and processes visual data from construction sites to create an interactive
digital twin. Alice raised $8m and Disperse $15m
in Series A funding.
Intel bids
for ‘smartest building in the world’ title with new office. Check out the numbers: 2,700 workstations, 143 conf.
rooms, 500+ smart screens, 14,000 sensors, 50-100 terabytes of data daily, a
BMS with 970 APIs and 60,000 input fields. 40% more energy efficient and 75%
less water consumed.
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