COVID-19 and recent shelter-in-place orders in the SF-Bay Area are naturally forcing companies to rethink some approaches to business. Of course the first priority is keeping employees healthy and minimizing negative effects to the community, plus setting..

The Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) and Sage recently released findings of their joint survey of nearly 1000 contractors. The summary reports an overall shared positive outlook, but also expectations of some reoccurring challenges growing worse.

The days of architects slaving over paper blueprints have mostly disappeared. This much most of us have known for awhile. But now its seems even slow-to-adopt-tech architectural firms are discovering how the right data can help generate more building designs at a..

"The Economist recently named data one of the most valuable resources of our time. It’s no secret that data already plays an integral role in every aspect of our lives both on a personal and professional level. And the construction industry is no exception. (..

For years the city of Oakland got shoved to the back of the popularity line behind San Francisco, its assets often ignored. But today that dynamic is changing. The Bay Area's building boom spread rapidly to Oakland, in part fueled by the growing millennial..

"Looking to bolster development of new technologies for construction and give industry players a place to test new products, Oracle has created a Construction and Engineering Innovation Lab. Located on the campus of the former Textura headquarters in Deerfield,..

In Star Trek's 1998 Insurrection the android Officer Data goes rogue..

"SpotMini is a four-legged dog-like robot that’s just under three feet tall, outfitted with 3D vision and 17 distinct joints. Boston Dynamics, the company that makes SpotMini, wants to be on pace to produce a thousand SpotMini robots annually by July 2019 for..

Poor Data Fuels Construction Rework

A joint study between software company PlanGrid and FMI Corporationrecently reported a growing problem that is plaguing many construction companies today: Poor data and miscommunication is driving over half of all..

"Amazon promises to build a $5B second headquarters to host 50,000 high-paying tech employees with a median income of $100K in the city that offers the most alluring incentives — but once you take in a tech powerhouse like Amazon, the construction boom won’t stop..