Five Key Themes at the 2025 BuiltWorlds Infrastructure Conference
This October, BuiltWorld’s second annual Infrastructure Conference heads to Arlington, Va., presenting a key opportunity for professionals across transportation, energy, and digital sectors to engage in meaningful conversations that advance the systems shaping the future of infrastructure. Focusing on this year’s theme, “Strengthening the Technology, Innovations, and Assets That Move, […]
The Construction Industry at a Glance: Momentum Gained in August
The US construction industry saw slight employment and spending drops in recent months, but a forward-looking industry indicator shows considerable positive momentum for both commercial and institutional sectors, according to the latest available data. In August, preliminary numbers showed a negligible month-over-month (MoM) decline in construction employment, from 8.3 million […]
Exploring Public-Private Partnerships (P3) in Infrastructure: Q&A With FlatironDragados’ Hamid Rezaei
Hamid Rezaei has spent the last two decades working across Canada and the United States, as well as across both public and private sector organizations, delivering complex transportation and transit projects. With postgraduate degrees in engineering, and a focus on large-scale infrastructure planning and delivery, Rezaei’s career path has been […]
Weekly Venture Deal Tracker: AI, Robotics and Energy Efficiency Win the Week
Across the built environment’s venture landscape, investors are making bets on a wide variety of technologies and businesses, hoping to be the backer of the next game changer. But while the portfolios of these VCs are diverse, there are certain clear favorites among the investment categories. BuiltWorlds tracks AEC industry […]
Weekly Venture Deal Tracker: Digital Solutions Continue to Get Attention
As an audience member recently pointed out during a BuiltWorlds webinar covering the acceleration of innovation and investment in the infrastructure space, venture capitalists seem to have a preference for digital solutions—a preference that our recent Q2 Venture Report seems to confirm, as the majority of the top deals across […]
2024 Demo Day Winners Video Playlist
The BuiltWorlds Demo Day Competition has become a signature feature of our events worldwide. Entrepreneurs with AEC-focused startups are invited to join us at each event, pitching their solutions to an insightful panel of venture capital judges and audience of construction industry leaders. Last year, we hosted nine Demo Days, […]
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