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.
Software that can show a video of a construction project assembling itself has been around for years, but an important change is afoot, say a wide range of industry leaders.
The American Society of Civil Engineers has proposed that a new chapter in its ASCE 7 Minimum Design Loads for Buildings and Other Structures, which addresses tsunami-resistant design, also be explicitly referenced in the ICC’s 2018 International Building Code.
Construction information service provider Dodge Data & Analytics is taking a new tack to provide intelligence to the construction and building-product manufacturing industries.
A cloud-based digital engineer is hovering nearby, ready to calculate, design and optimize thousands of bolted and welded connections on 3D Tekla models as a service to subscribers.
The Federal Aviation Administration has asked an outside committee to propose eased rules for commercial flights of small drones in urban areas and over people not involved in flight operations.
Many industry organizations annually recognize leaders who have helped to shape the future of all the sectors and professions that make up the construction industry.
The Industry Leaders Council of the American Society of Civil Engineers is evaluating submissions to a new contest that is soliciting ideas for transforming the future of infrastructure.