Category: Bulletin
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WSP Boosts Collaboration with Online BIMs
WSP Finland wanted to make building information modeling collaboration easier for all stakeholders in a construction project. They chose Tridify’s solution that allows anyone to explore BIMs with a web browser on any device without having to install additional software. Working in disparate teams and trying to collaborate using BIMs is often strenuous. Typically, stakeholders…
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Suffolk Expands Services Beyond Construction
Suffolk, one of the most innovative and successful contractors in the USA, unveiled a diversification strategy. It is focused on leveraging the company’s core competency of construction and expanding into additional service lines to create a fully-integrated platform that adds value for clients across the entire building lifecycle. As part of the strategy, Suffolk launched…
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Reality Capture Project Final Report Released
Aalto University has released the final report of its Reality Capture (RECAP) project. The purpose of the research project was to investigate opportunities for automatic monitoring of progress, automatic quality checking of construction, and visualization of progress utilizing Augmented Reality technologies. The project started from the observation that laser scanning and photogrammetry related technology has…
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Helsinki Piloting Zero-Emission Construction Sites
Last year, Finland’s capital, Helsinki, started a dialogue with infrastructure contractors about emission-free street construction projects. The city is now outlining the selection criteria for bidding and will send out a call for tenders in February 2020. The criteria are limited to the site itself and will not include material transports. In the criteria, machines…
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InfraBIM Open Coming up on February 3, 2020
The first InfraBIM Open in 2018 brought already together 400 participants to Tampere, Finland. In 2019 it attracted 530 participants from over 25 different countries, and the program included 60 presentations. The world had been waiting for this conference series! During two days in February 2020 the organizers will gather together the best subjects, most…
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Buildiro Introduces a 90-minute Courier Delivery Service for Small Stock Items
Buildiro, the world’s first mobile app for materials procurement which has been building a loyal fanbase of tradespeople and merchants since its launch in September 2019, is set to introduce a new service. On 20 January 2020, Buildiro Direct begins, delivering those crucial, small, missing items to tradespeople within London, offering a 0.5% discount off…
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DiCtion Digitalizes Construction Workflows – AEC Business
Construction projects suffer from low productivity and risks pertaining to schedules, quality, and costs. Over recent decades, construction productivity has improved by a mere one percent. DiCtion is a research and development project led by the Aalto University that seeks to boost productivity through the digitalization of construction workflows. Aalto University’s Department of Civil Engineering…
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Unissu is Hosting the Global Real Estate Equivalent of TED Talks
Proptech marketplace Unissu.com has launched Connect, creating the first simultaneous global view of the rise of technology in the property market. Unissu will be working with local partners in 15 cities in five days on March 2-6, 2020. It will provide free-to-view videos from experts on the future of global real estate and the rise…
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7 Days of Construction Tech News – Week 49
Here are our picks from the latest construction technology news. “We always ask our people: ‘what are the problems in the construction industry?’. It’s always been done the same way for many years,” says Jeff Condello, President & CEO of RANDALL Construction. The company is cementing its position as the leading self-perform in Florida by…
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7 Days of News – Week 47
Here are our picks from the most recent construction technology news. The top concern of the 666 contractors surveyed for the 2020 FMI Industry Report was jobsite safety, although only 54% said they turned to technology to maintain it. Furthermore, 70% of the respondents said they don’t have a technology roadmap. What hampers productivity in…