In spite of our industry being surrounded by a broad spectrum of extremely powerful and compelling technologies, performance improvement remains stagnate.
Researchers from the University of California at Berkeley and Harvard University have developed a working prototype of a robot that realigns its body to maneuver through tiny cracks to gather data.
State transportation departments are considering using high-tech maps to measure how much fuel is saved from driving on repaved highways, thanks to a new pavement-vehicle-interaction test developed at MIT.
Thanks to problems with elevator-cable girth, weight and sway, supertall-building specialists often get hung up on the ropes when designing towers taller than 500 or 600 meters.
In one of the biggest investments in automation by the rental industry, United Rentals on Dec. 17 announced that it has entered into a partnership with 5D Robotics to install automation systems on equipment in its rental yards.
The 2015 JBKnowledge Construction Technology Report states that that less than half of the companies that responded could meet Europe’s soon-to-be-implemented requirement of delivering as-built BIM models of all construction projects. “Companies would have a hard time turning spreadsheet data into BIM,” states the survey.
The year in construction technology saw robots being used on more job sites in the real world, powerful data-aggregation applications adopted to save time and drones at work above many jobsites, despite lagging guidance from the Federal Aviation Administration.
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