Bentley Systems Inc. said on June 20 that it has acquired Synchro Software, a London-based 4D scheduler and construction planning tool championed by its CEO, Tom Dengenis, since 2007 for use on major, high-risk projects worldwide.
Bluebeam Inc., creator of a widely-used, PDF-based construction document synchronization and collaboration system founded in 2003, has made its first technology acquisition, buying Project Atlas, a bootstrapping startup that stitches project data into a map-like, location-based data navigation system.
A software and drone-data platform developer has released what it claims is the first mobile mapping feature to deliver thermal maps of target areas as the data is being collected, for real-time evaluation in the field.
Construction project management software vendor InEight signed a deal on March 18 to purchase assets of QA Software, Melbourne, Australia, including TeamBinder, its flagship, cloud-based document management and collaboration system for engineering and construction.
A new app for smartphones and tablets running iOS 11 translates handwritten instructions into mathematical operations and then swiftly performs them, recognizing many calculation symbols.
Successful pilot efforts for new technologies and processes often don’t make the jump to standard practice. ENR talks to industry firms about what they’re doing to ensure that good ideas find a place in construction workflows.
