Category: Construction
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BIM-FM Integration: A Primer on Virtual Facilities Management
Minding the FM Gap – Setting the Stage for a Successful BIM-FM A building is only as good as it operates; the most sophisticated creation made with the most cutting-edge digital tools remains a fantasy if it cannot be operated within the means of the owner/operator in the real world. Today’s facilities are demanding complex…
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Suffolk Expands Services Beyond Construction
Suffolk, one of the most innovative and successful contractors in the USA, unveiled a diversification strategy. It is focused on leveraging the company’s core competency of construction and expanding into additional service lines to create a fully-integrated platform that adds value for clients across the entire building lifecycle. As part of the strategy, Suffolk launched…
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Reality Capture Project Final Report Released
Aalto University has released the final report of its Reality Capture (RECAP) project. The purpose of the research project was to investigate opportunities for automatic monitoring of progress, automatic quality checking of construction, and visualization of progress utilizing Augmented Reality technologies. The project started from the observation that laser scanning and photogrammetry related technology has…
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Helsinki Piloting Zero-Emission Construction Sites
Last year, Finland’s capital, Helsinki, started a dialogue with infrastructure contractors about emission-free street construction projects. The city is now outlining the selection criteria for bidding and will send out a call for tenders in February 2020. The criteria are limited to the site itself and will not include material transports. In the criteria, machines…
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Cutting Through ‘Paralysis by Analysis’: Strategies for Managing the Rising Tide of Construction Data
Construction firms juggle dozens or even hundreds of projects simultaneously. For c-suite decision-makers, that can translate into a near-permanent state of triage—scrambling to put out project-specific fires related to schedules, costs, quality and safety. It’s a dynamic that must end if contractors, especially self-performers, are to take full advantage of the tech and data revolutions…
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InfraBIM Open Coming up on February 3, 2020
The first InfraBIM Open in 2018 brought already together 400 participants to Tampere, Finland. In 2019 it attracted 530 participants from over 25 different countries, and the program included 60 presentations. The world had been waiting for this conference series! During two days in February 2020 the organizers will gather together the best subjects, most…
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The Need for Situational Awareness in Construction
Recent research backs up what we already know from practice: construction work is suboptimal. What happens on a construction site has not kept up with the demands of an increasingly complex work environment. Situational awareness could give on-site employees the necessary means to finally reap the productivity benefits of digitalization. Under the guidance of Professor…
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Construction Needs Collaborative Planning – AEC Business
What makes construction different from manufacturing is its dynamic nature. Unlike a systemized production plant, a construction site is a mesh of interconnected processes that are far from optimized. The traditional top-down planning practice does not solve problems on the construction site, as recent research reveals. Making planning collaborative is a necessary step in making…
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DiCtion Digitalizes Construction Workflows – AEC Business
Construction projects suffer from low productivity and risks pertaining to schedules, quality, and costs. Over recent decades, construction productivity has improved by a mere one percent. DiCtion is a research and development project led by the Aalto University that seeks to boost productivity through the digitalization of construction workflows. Aalto University’s Department of Civil Engineering…
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Unissu is Hosting the Global Real Estate Equivalent of TED Talks
Proptech marketplace Unissu.com has launched Connect, creating the first simultaneous global view of the rise of technology in the property market. Unissu will be working with local partners in 15 cities in five days on March 2-6, 2020. It will provide free-to-view videos from experts on the future of global real estate and the rise…