Articles by Jeff Rubenstone

Developing AI-based visual-analysis tool for facade inspections, changing how buildings are maintained

Things were not looking good a few months ago for Fieldlens, the site documentation and project markup tool once referred to as the “Facebook of Construction.”

New technologies are offered up to the construction industry every day, but actually stitching them together into a usable workflow is the real challenge.

A new wearable sensor is offering construction workers and safety managers an early-warning signal.

When the COVID-19 pandemic first spread across the U.S. earlier this year, construction sites saw a raft of new safety procedures to ensure essential work could continue without casually spreading the virus.

Hawaiian Dredging has used manual processes to track the productivity of the cranes on its jobsites in the past, but a deployment of Versatile's CraneView sensor package is automating some of that tedious and difficult work.

New technologies and processes for digitally managed materials tracking and deliveries are challenging long-held ideas on project logistics

Getting machine learning and artificial intelligence to work for construction is often a matter of finding where it would be most useful.

In an effort to create a common environment for design visualizations across multiple platforms, Autodesk has partnered with Nvidia to bring its broad suite of design software to Nvidia Omniverse, a recently launched collaborative 3D environment that allows users of different software to see their 3D designs in one shared online space.

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.