While cloud computing and the abundant project data it provides have transformed everything from construction management to conceptual design, preconstruction estimating remains stubbornly unchanged
The software startup, which makes a construction scheduling and planning platform, announced Aug. 27 it had raised $13.5 million in a Series A funding round led by Sierra Ventures.
PCL Construction secures a $42-million progressive design-build contract to expand San Diego's South Bay International Wastewater Treatment plant, the first contract in an overall $600 million project to treat wastewater flows that have been crossing the border with Mexico since 2022.
GPRS acquires Existing Conditions, Oracle releases Primavera Unifier Accelerator and BuiltWorlds offers a robust energy storage technology discussion at its Midwest Forum.
Forensic engineering has come a long way since Wiss Janney Elstner Associates was featured on the cover of ENR in 1972. For its 150th anniversary, ENR looks back at how problem-solving and investigations by that forensics firm and others have better informed the engineering knowledge base.
A 1972 ENR cover story said of Wiss Janney Elstner Associates in Northbrook, Ill., “It exists largely by looking for trouble, both before and after the fact of structural distress and failure.”
Strong endorsements come in for the Minnesota governor from organized labor and state AGC chapter, but Associated Builders and Contractors criticized Walz's record.
Esri President Jack Dangermond and Autodesk CEO Andrew Anagnost promise new GIS-to-BIM workflows as Esri and Autodesk's partnership works to bring planners and designers closer together.