The dog-shaped Spot robot from Boston Dynamics will be available next year with a Trimble laser scanner and GNSS antenna built in, for an out-of-the box autonomous reality capture on jobsites.

Two years after introducing a model viewer, Procore brings out a major feature update for its field BIM software.

With the company’s IPO bringing Bentley into the sphere of publicly traded companies, the software maker plans to continue its expansion into the construction phase of projects.

Software provider told Year in Infrastructure conference attendees Oct. 20 that strategic link will better integrate the tech giant’s Azure cloud system into its existing software to ease data logjam.

Conference wrapup on Oct. 16 offered a glimpse at what comes next–the state of emerging technologies and how construction tech fits in the context of a changing industry market.

Efficiencies in design, construction and building use are being unlocked thanks to analysis and proactive changes informed by construction data. Even 3D printing for a NASA project on structures on Mars is on the table.

“Ideas and solutions are the easy part,” says Ricardo Khan, senior director of innovation at Mortenson Construction. It’s “the process” that is the real challenge. Khan’s midday keynote captured one of the key themes of the second day of the virtual ENR FutureTech conference—the need to identify the problems in your construction process before you start throwing technology at them

Telematics, wearables, online collaboration, 3D model management tools and the ever-evolving ways contractors collect and use data took center stage in the first day of ENR's all-virtual FutureTech construction technology conference.

A new coordination workflow between Autodesk BIM 360 Model Coordination and Navisworks allows users to assign and track clashes and other issuers from anywhere to anywhere without meetings and other face-to-face activities.

Infrastructure software provider's leap from family-run operation to publicly traded company realizes a long-term goal to reward employees and boost shareholder liquidity, says CEO.