Researchers from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab and the University of California, Merced, are testing a drone-mounted methane-detection device that sports a miniaturized version of the NASA Mars Curiosity Rovers’ sensor array.

A three-day conference providing demonstrations, presentations and networking by firms inventing, piloting and implementing technologies to address construction’s future left attendees bullish on tech prospects for the construction industry and heading home with ideas to deploy.

Initial results from a new ENR study of information technology investment trends among contractors shows that firms still are spending lightly on IT and are underresourced in staffing the function.

A technology company that uses computer vision to mine traffic video for data recently released a free cloud platform to which departments of transportation and engineers can upload an unlimited amount of footage and traffic data and find and connect with video consultants and contractors. Additionally, the company is releasing a new piece of hardware that plugs traffic signals into the “internet of things” (IoT).

Beachwood, Ohio-based Tremco Roofing and Building Maintenance teamed up with Toronto-based Industrial SkyWorks, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and data solutions company that received the first-ever approval for nighttime flights in the U.S.—moving the construction industry to the forefront of the UAV field.

Researchers at the University of Illinois have developed a polymer based, damage-indicating coating that warns of breaks—from surface paint scratches to internal cracks—on steel and other metallic surfaces.

A new drone report sheds light on the type of industries that are using drones most and the drone manufacturers who are getting ahead.

Frustrated by seeing apps for everything but what he needed, Chris Eberhardt, a piping foreman, created an iOS and Android application to save him time as well as secure and standardize pressure-test reporting.

KONE rolls out IBM’s cloud-based Internet of Things platform known as Watson to over a million of its elevators, escalators and doors around the world.