Future of Construction Project Management in the Cloud

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INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – The promise of the cloud meets the power of construction project scheduling with a recently formed new partnership. Catalyst, a U.S. seller and services provider for Asta Powerproject and Oracle Primavera, has joined forces with the cloud hosting company LoadSpring, to offer the software packages on reliable, access-anywhere cloud servers. Hosted software is an inevitable and logical trend for growing firms, the new partners say. While the construction industry is notably risk averse and a latecomer to cloud adoption, the flywheel has started to turn and many more mid-to-large construction companies are seeing it as a competitive … Read more

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Construction Group Uses Mobile Tech to Make Highway Work Zones Safer

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Fifty-four percent of highway contractors reported that motor vehicles had crashed into their construction work zones during the past year, according to the results of a new highway work zone study conducted by the Associated General Contractors of America. In response, association officials have launched a new mobile advertising campaign urging drivers who routinely pass through certain work zones to slow down and be alert. “There are simply too many cars crashing into too many work zones, putting too many lives at risk,” said Spokesman Ken Kubacki, chairman of AGC’s Highway and Transportation Division;  Western Region Projects executive, Granite Construction … Read more

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Using Technology to Deal with Construction Labor Shortage

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By Dr. Sergey Sundukovskiy The ongoing labor shortage in the construction industry is a chronic issue that isn’t going away. The construction industry must turn to technological solutions to help manage increasingly complicated projects with fewer workers. It’s been nearly a decade since the worst days of the Great Recession and the housing market crash. An estimated 30 percent of construction workers left the field during the economic downturn. The skilled construction labor pool has never recovered. More than 70 percent of construction firms reported having trouble recruiting for hourly craft labor positions in August 2017, according to the Associated … Read more

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Using Drones to Streamline Work, Cut Costs and Manage the Jobsite

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By Tom Simon If you want to see how the $505-million Mercyhealth Hospital and Trauma Center-Riverside in Rockford, Illinois is being built, just look to the sky. In a first for Mortenson, the builder is using drones to map, plan and manage complex site utilization faster and better than traditional methods make possible. Unlike the unmanned aerial vehicles used to produce those entertaining novice videos on YouTube, these drones are delivering precision video and images with dimensional data of the 65-acre construction site in near real time. The builder integrates the drone-captured data and images with the project’s BIM and … Read more

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Dodge Data & Analytics Launches Dodge Construction Central with New Capabilities

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Dodge Data & Analytics has launched Dodge Construction Central, which delivers deep intelligence to project stakeholders from the most comprehensive industry data cloud. It empowers them to collaborate with project teams and integrate insights directly into their business processes by leveraging artificial intelligence, advanced analytics, collaboration and workflow automation technologies. “Increasingly, improving productivity and attaining growth in our industry requires knowledge sharing and collaboration among many companies, stakeholders and workflows,” said Mike Petrullo, CEO, Dodge Data & Analytics. “Dodge Construction Central is the first market intelligence hub where all players across the industry can gain critical insights and collaborate to … Read more

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