Technology Jumpstarts Lean Construction Practices
This article is a Contributor Post written by Sarah Lee of Pype. If you are interested in the BuiltWorlds Contributor Program, click here. The most important elements of any construction project are time, cost and quality. Often, one of those three will get deprioritized or outright dismissed by way of stakeholder priorities. […]
Maverick Award Winner Q&A: Suffolk’s Jit Kee Chin, talks data and the jobsite
We sat down with Jit Kee Chin, Suffolk’s new Executive Vice President and Chief Data Officer, a new role we’re seeing cropping up in the industry. One of our Maverick Award winner, Chin is doing a lot of exciting things to leverage data on the jobsite. BuiltWorlds’s News Analyst, Jim […]
How Ozinga’s CarbonCure-treated concrete was leveraged in McDonald’s Chicago flagship restaurant
The new McDonald’s flagship store in Chicago’s River North neighborhood is unlike any McDonalds’ restaurant you’ve ever seen. Designed by the iconic Ross Barney Architects firm, this beautiful structure of glass and steel has more in common with an Apple store than your run-of-the-mill restaurant. Aside from its striking appearance, […]
Office Transition Survival Guide
Thousands of businesses across the country have some sort of office transition each year. In some cases, it’s because they have grown too large for their current spaces, or maybe it’s because they are downsizing to smaller, more cost-efficient real estate. It could also be a strategic move to be […]
Reach for the sky: 3 innovations allowing us to build taller skyscrapers
BuiltWorlds kicks off its exciting 2020 calendar with our Buildings Conference in March. Over two days in Chicago, we’ll examine the innovations in building materials, technologies, and techniques. The conference will also include case studies focused on the development of high-performance structures and”smart buildings,” and how these projects are actually […]
5 Top Trends and Players in Fast-Changing Building Technology
“Building Tech” is a fascinating space right now because technology in this context includes everything from new systems for planning better buildings to new systems and products for smarter and efficient buildings. As we move from our Project Planning Conference to Buildings 2.0, the next conference in our series, we […]
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