Tag: Sites
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Situational Awareness on Construction Sites with Spot
The Building 2030 consortium is doing cutting-edge research on situational awareness in construction. On March 16, 2021, it tested robotized reality capture indoors on Skanska’s Lippulaiva shopping center site in Espoo. Building 2030 had set up this test to examine the feasibility of robotized reality capture for real-time construction management. During the test run, the Boston Dynamics Spot robot carried a Trimble 3D…
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Why We’ll See Robots on Construction Sites
In his Architect Magazine article, Boston Dynamics construction manager Brian Ringley sees invaluable opportunities for robotics that have little to do with automating building construction and installation. The notion that architects can regain their “master builder” status through robotic construction is not currently feasible, according to Ringley. He writes: “This file-to-field approach, challenging even for…
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Are we ready for “Big Brother” on construction sites?
As we are all embracing the new digital transformation that this current pandemic is bringing in our daily life. Will this be enough to finally drive the much-needed digital transformation in the construction industry? I certainly do feel unsettled without my international lifestyle, hopping from one industry event to another. I am very sympathetic to…
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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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3D Images Service for Construction Sites
Multivista has launched 3D Images as part of its suite of documentation services for the construction industry. Like its construction photo documentation service, Multivista will offer 3D Images as a full service and support both the data capture and the data management. The service will be powered by the Leica BLK3D, which is a handheld 3D imager…
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Survey: Manual Processes Hurt Quality Control and Add Costs on Construction Sites
A new survey of 500 US executives and managers in construction and engineering found that nearly half still use manual collection processes to capture critical data on job sites. These manual processes increase the time needed to make decisions, hurt work quality, and leave firms facing unnecessary costs. The research, from TrackVia, a mobile-ready workflow…
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A New Perspective on Mapping Construction Sites with the Crane Camera System
In this interview, Julian Norton, Business Development Manager of Pix4D, talks about the company’s innovative mapping system for construction sites. Pix4D has just launched an early adopter program and is looking for test users. Can you say a few words about your company’s background and mission?Pix4D was founded in 2011 as a spinoff of EPFL, a leading…
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Mobile SEO: Making Sites Short and Social
With all good search methods starting to fade away like a morning fog, we are getting ready to enter an era of a deeper focus on the mobile computing world, optimizing our sales and marketing efforts to cater to the new smaller, more ‘on the go’ lifestyles that people lead. Whereas before, most professional marketing…