Project Uptime
Project Uptime
5 Ways Data Can Boost Productivity
By Marianne Wait | September 14, 2018
When used effectively, data is a powerful thing. Whether it’s created by drones, laser scanners, sensors or software, or even by contractors using a simple spreadsheet, it has the...
Airports Embrace Smart Technology
August 24, 2018
U.S. airports continue to get busier and busier, and passengers hate the air travel experience as much as ever. But airports are embracing smart technology to make it more...
Implement a Strategic Roadmap for Successful Technology Adoption
August 7, 2018
The construction industry is enjoying an explosion of cool, exciting new technology — drones, virtual reality training systems, project management software with amazing...
How Reality Capture Is Boosting Construction Productivity
August 2, 2018
Reality capture from devices such as drones, laser scanners and even smartphone cameras is producing a tsunami of real-time data on jobsites. The challenge is figuring out to how...
Mass Timber Goes Mainstream
July 30, 2018
News that an outpost of the fast-food eatery in Chicago is being built with mass timber serves as the proof in the proverbial pudding that a sustainable building approach already...
Smart Cities Aim to Solve Traffic Problems with Automation and the IoT
July 25, 2018
Traffic congestion in the United States is the worst it’s ever been, and our roads aren’t faring any better. The toll on businesses, not to mention on vehicles, the environment...
4 Tips for Effectively Implementing New Construction Technology
July 23, 2018
You’ve developed a technology roadmap for your company and prioritized where you want your tech dollars to go over the next few years. Now you’re ready to put your latest big...
Innovative Uses for Composite Materials
July 13, 2018
Composite materials, sometimes referred to as fiber-reinforced polymers (FRP), combine the properties of a polymer (resin) and natural or man-made fibers to produce strong yet...
7 Factors that Move the Construction Productivity Needle
July 9, 2018
Construction has a well-known productivity problem. Where other industries have seen significant productivity improvements over the last decades, construction has all but stagnated...
Regenerative Buildings: Designs That Give Back
July 5, 2018
Sustainable development has typically been defined as development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs...