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.
Student Engineers are Building a Steel Bridge to Utah
You might be a little familiar with the Steel Bridge Competition. Like the
concrete canoe competition, it shares the similar goal of providing
engineering students with the opportunity to use design and build as a
competition piece. We partnered with a group of students from Illinois Tech
to follow their progress. Did they bridge the gap?
Don’t Let Lucas Temple Doom McCormick Place!
So which side is the dark one? Our own John Gregerson opines on Chicago’s
epic battle to win the pricey Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, which has now
turned ugly after the mayor’s recent suggestion to tear down iconic
McCormick Place East.
Fact-finding World Tour Fuels Maker Conference
Where there’s a will, there’s a way. That age-old theme is the driving
mission behind the global maker movement, which Chicago’s IIT Institute of
Design will advance this month by presenting the results of its six-month,
four-city Strategy World Tour.
Innovate or Die: CEO Tech Forum (Pt 3)
Got your attention? Good. If you weren’t able to make it to our first CEO
Tech Forum April 20-22, you missed a heck of a lot. So here is the most
comprehensive written summary to date. But stay tuned for much more CTF
video to come this spring.
Ford’s $1.2B Better Idea to Take on Silicon Valley
“This is war!” says one Michigan architect. Detroit v. Silicon Valley. This
month, the state’s high-stakes battle for tech talent just got hotter. Like
GM a year ago, Ford unveiled big plans to remake its Dearborn HQ campus
into a mobility innovation hub.
Bridgit Bags its Own VC bundle
After closing out 2015 with a big win at Google’s Entrepreneurs Demo Day,
our favorite women-owned Canadian construction tech startup has now secured
$1.7 million in seed investment from Hyde Park Ventures, and backed by
Vanedge Capital.
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