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BuiltWorlds Launches Cutting-Edge Research Track for Smarter Construction Equipment
To achieve a comprehensive transformation of the construction industry, it is essential to innovate both the software and hardware used on jobsites to enhance efficiency, productivity, and safety. This involves integrating advanced technologies to streamline planning, monitoring, and execution processes. Meaningful change within the industry will require a revolution in […]
Evolving Concrete and Cement Technology to Address Modern Emission Goals
In the race to promote sustainability and decarbonize the built environment globally, legacy and startup material suppliers, manufacturers, and adjacent technology companies are working to provide green alternatives to traditional building materials and supplies. The construction industry, long criticized for its substantial carbon footprint, is now witnessing a surge in […]
Construction’s Roadblocks to Robotics: AEC’s Adoption Struggles and What We Can Learn From Industries Leading the Way
The construction industry offers numerous opportunities for the implementation of robotics. Today, contractors have implemented robotics onsite for tasks such as bricklaying, site inspections, demolition, material handling, layout, and drywall installation. Robotics in construction can improve efficiency, safety, and precision for contractors by automating repetitive tasks, reducing human error, and […]
Q2 2024 Venture Report: Key Takeaways
If built world venture capital markets proved one thing in Q2 2024, it’s that we are in an investor’s market. Despite additional dry powder contributed to the built environment, investors continued a conservative capital deployment strategy benefiting quality, early-stage startups. VCs with both built world-centric and adjacent investment theses raised […]
Defining and Driving Innovation: A Q&A With STOBG’s Rob Leon
As chief innovation officer of STO Building Group, Rob Leon’s vision and mission is far-reaching, and can take many forms—from building cross-functional teams to fostering internal entrepreneurship to leading industry partnerships—but ultimately it’s a philosophy. “When we think of innovation, we tend to think of ideation sessions with colorful stickers […]
Building Confidence in Construction and the Evolution of Jobsite Camera Solutions
Jobsite cameras have come a long way from humble beginnings in the early 1990s. Once “glorified webcams” with limited point-and-shoot capabilities for low-resolution images, jobsite cameras are now connected, multi-functional tools that support the safety, security and success of construction jobsites.
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