Category: Bulletin
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Construction Technolgy News Week 42
Here are our picks from construction technology newsfeeds from the last 7 days. 21 European companies have formed a consortium to “take multi-story timber mainstream”. The group has secured €10m in EU funding and plans to spend the next four years developing standards, documenting social and environmental benefits, and addressing the estimated need for 1.6m…
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Report on Solving Construction’s Productivity Puzzle
PlanGrid recently commissioned research with Construction Manager to hear the views of 235 UK industry professionals on the ground. The report highlights their biggest frustrations and suggests possible solutions. Download the report, Digital Foundations: Solving Construction’s Productivity Puzzle to understand the impact of: Issues with accuracy Collaboration complications The persistence of paper Technology and talent…
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The Next Level of Access Control for Construction with IoT and Video
Triax Technologies, Inc. and EarthCam announced a partnership to integrate their solutions to increase visibility into jobsite perimeters, enhancing safety and security. Using Triax’s Spot-r network, the two companies are offering a first-of-its-kind solution, enabling EarthCam’s high-resolution video cameras to provide real-time, independent visual verification of data identified through a worker’s wearable Spot-r Clip as it…
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Maria 01 Aims to Be Europe’s Largest Startup Campus
Mikko Kuusakoski, Head of Data and Analytics at YIT, talks about Maria 01, a development project in Helsinki that will boost the European startup ecosystem. Maria is an old hospital block that in 2016 was turned into a startup campus. Today, it houses over 100 startups and has 1,100 members. In 2018, the members raised…
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Kitconnect, a Web App for Industrialized Construction
Project Frog unveils Kitconnect, an integrated web application for Industrialized Construction. Built on Autodesk’s® Forge™, the solution enables end-to-end data flow from design to manufacture and construction. Project Frog is a San Francisco, California-based product and technology company founded in 2006. It delivers the platform, software and integration tools needed for the Industrialized Construction (IC)…
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Global Admixture Manufacturer Partially Acquires a Concrete Sensor Solution
Vancouver, Canada, based Kryton International Inc. acquired 30% of the fast-growing concrete sensor company Sensohive. The young IoT company Sensohive Technologies based in Denmark launched its Maturix™solution two years ago. It has been adopted by leading contractors and precast producers like PASCHAL GmbH, VolkerWessels, Heidelberg Cement, NCC, Skanska, and Kruse Smith, among others. The monitoring…
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InfraBIM Open Speaker: The Submission Deadline is on October 1
The first InfraBIM Open in 2018 brought together 400 participants, followed by 530 participants in 2019 from over 25 different countries. In February 2020, the organizers promise to deliver an even bigger and higher quality event. They just announced an extension to the presentation submission time. The final deadline for submissions is October 1, 2019. Join…
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Egnyte and Procore Team Up to Replace Outdated Processes in Construction
Egnyte, the business first security content platform, today announced an integration with Procore, a leading provider of construction management software, that will provide the construction industry with a better way to work that replaces the outdated, manual approach to accessing, changing, and reviewing files. “Construction tech is gaining traction as companies in the field are…
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South-East Asia’s Largest 3D-printer for Construction Operational in Singapore
South-East Asia’s largest 3D-printer for construction is declared operational in Singapore by the Housing and Development Board (HDB) in Singapore at the PEAK Forum on 11 September 2019. This 3D concrete printer is capable of printing concrete components up to 9 m long, 3.5 m wide and 3.8 m tall. The 3D-printer is developed and…
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Handiss Helps You Hire Top Freelance Architects and Engineers
Handiss is a freelancing platform made specifically for architecture and engineering. It helps companies find global talent for freelance work. Handiss is the construction market network where vetted engineering consultants, architects, and industry experts can offer their work to their peers in the industry. Founded by engineers for engineers, Handiss is dedicated to matching clients…