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7 Startups Demo AI-Powered Solutions at 2025 AI/ML Conference
The BuiltWorlds 2025 AI/ML Conference Demo Day Competition featured seven promising AEC startups, each with a novel, industry-specific innovation that was pitched to a captivated audience and panel of active investor judges. In the end, it was ConeLabs that came out on top, impressing the judges with its AI-powered inspection […]
Building Trust in AI
When John Andres, director of technology for ANDRES Construction Services, began to experiment with AI services like ChatGPT, he was skeptical of the program’s accuracy and trustworthiness. “One of the first things I did was throw our standard operating procedures (and) company handbook (into the program),” Andres said. The company […]
Getting to Know SMACNA’s Innovator of the Year: A Q&A With Liz Fong
Liz Fong has worked at MacDonald-Miller Facility Solutions, a full-service, design-build mechanical contractor out of the Pacific Northwest, for more than a decade. She spent about six years as a sheet metal worker before becoming operations integration general foreman, a position she’s held for nearly eight years. Recently, she was […]
Construction’s Robotic Risk Dilemma
The construction industry is battling a complex headwind of overlapping and intersecting challenges that threaten to restrain the built environment’s growth and development. It’s a situation that has fueled the incubation of innovation while also underscoring the complications of truly incorporating those new technologies that promise the most impact. This […]
Cultivating Internal Buy-In for New Technology in the Construction Industry
Construction is not an industry of rapid change. In fact, according to McKinsey, the AEC industry has been one of the slowest to adapt to innovation and digitize. But, change is on the horizon. As the construction industry faces a critical deficit in labor, along with an aging workforce, many […]
Educating and Engaging the Future Workforce: A Q&A With Dr. Sumesh Arora of Entergy
With over three decades of experience in the energy sector and chemical process industry, as well as a bachelor’s, masters, and doctorate, Dr. Sumesh Arora has spent a lot of time both in and out of the classroom. This wide range of education and industry experience is to his benefit, […]
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