Analyst Briefings, News From Around the Network & Verified Member Contributor Posts
With news making headlines every day in the built world, Analyst Briefings, News From Network Members, and Expert Contributor Posts help keep member connected and up to date.
In addition to our own Analyst Briefings, our Verified Contributor Program empowers members to submit analysis in their fields of expertise, while our News from Around the Network pulls updates posted by member companies from their company pages to help keep the network connected.
5 Minutes with Peter Grant, CEO of Safesite
We sat down with Peter Grant, CEO of Safesite, a mobile safety app, to chat
for 5 minutes, in anticipation of his presentation at the MCAA’s
Construction Tech Conference.
Modern Marketing: Why Stories Still Matter
Likes. Shares. Clicks. Retweets. Engagement. The measures of success in
digital marketing these days may sound like a new vocabulary. But at the
end of the day, it is still the storytelling that will win hearts and
minds, argues our own Rob McManamy.
Rhumbix Starts New Trials, Adds New Partners
These days, Rhumbix is busy. The construction management app announced a
new partnership and will begin a new round of trials on a California
hospital project, deploying their mobile timekeeping solution with an
indoor location technology.
With BIM Mandate Here, UK Turns to Sensors
The UK’s highly anticipated mandate for the use of building information
modeling on all government projects is now in effect. Bechtel’s Stephen
Smith explains how all the new ‘big data’ sensors will make cities like
London not just smarter, but better.
Arup, Rockefeller Launch City Resilience Tool
Last week in London, after years of joint research and testing, global
engineering giant ARUP and the Rockefeller Foundation jointly unveiled a
new City Resilience Index, a “pioneering tool for cities to understand and
assess their resilience.”
Northwestern Students Give Their Concrete 3D Printer Its Own Test
Our favorite engineering students from Northwestern U have only two weeks
left before their main event: the demonstration of their concrete 3D
printer prototype. Now in their home-stretch, BuiltWorldsNU is tinkering
away at working out the final kinks. Let’s check in with them this week
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