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Kajima taps Alice Technologies in Effort to Streamline Construction Scheduling

BuiltWorlds members Kajima and ALICE Technologies are partnering in an effort to streamline Kajima’s construction scheduling efforts. ALICE leverages AI to analyze a project’s complex building requirements, generate highly efficient building schedules, and tune those schedules as needed during construction. Through the use of these powerful AI tools, ALICE Technologies will allow Kajima to create […]

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When Construction Robots Say You’re Behind Schedule, And Seven Other Talks on Changes to How We Monitor Project Progress

Andrew Cameron, Hensel Phelps talks robotics and reality capture at our Project Delivery Conference. As Franco Giaquinto, Founder and CEO of Latin American construction software company IPSUM, illustrated on this past week’s Demo Call, few project controls conventions are under more assault right now than the Project Schedule. State of the art used to mean […]

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Venture West Panel Preview: Climate Tech – The Regulatory Impact on the Built World

As the struggle for more environmentally-friendly buildings and building processes continues, building technology innovation and the use of building technology has come more squarely into the spotlight in the construction industry.  It is no longer solely the architect’s choice to use sustainable materials or solely the engineer’s choice to use efficient systems. Rather, it is […]

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Radar – Our Selection of Innovative Businesses #15: 8 Solutions to Bring Construction Out of the Public Health Crisis

This article was contributed by Leonard as part of the BuiltWorlds Verified Contributor Program. While the resumption of work at construction sites is a good omen, it also poses a major challenge for the health of the workers involved. Many start-ups are proposing to support the resumption of work and innovating to facilitate compliance with […]

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AROUND THE NETWORK: Simpson Strong-Tie Invests in Higharc to Boost Innovation in the Construction Process

BuiltWorlds member Simpson Strong-Tie recently announced a $1.3 million strategic investment in Higharc — the all-in-one homebuilding platform for design, sales, and construction. The investment represents the company’s ongoing commitment to provide comprehensive, state of the art solutions to the building industry with digital platforms and physical products. With this investment, Simpson Strong-Tie will help […]

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AROUND THE NETWORK: Lennar and Ferguson lead Greyter’s $10M Series B: A Big Step Towards Changes in Residential Water Conservation

BuiltWorlds member Lennar Corporation, through their investment arm LENX, recently led a $10m Series B round along with Ferguson Ventures, in Greyter Water Systems Inc., provider of The Greyter HOME™, a residential greywater reuse system advancing the construction and building industry. The investment offers Greyter the opportunity to scale its business to meet increasing demand […]

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With Construction Tech, Proptech Fund Slowdown, Industry’s Global Strategics Poised to Drive New Investment

It may not be the tech wreck of 2001, but the Silicon Valley formula for launching startups that has captured construction tech and proptech headlines and industry imaginations over the past decade has definitely taken its lumps in the past year. The absolute rout in the sector’s SPACs, the sell off in big tech, the […]

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Chicago atwitter in wake of 1st AEC Hackathon

Chicago’s first-ever AEC Hackathon took over BuiltWorlds this past weekend,
filling our space with creative engineers, architects, coders, hackers,
students and volunteers. Teammates eagerly reached across competitive silos
to collaborate on solving industry problems. Some took home prizes, but all
left energized and blessed with new friends.

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