Proptech has a snappy technology answer to snap lines. The age-old method of multi-person crews laying out construction site dimensions by snapping chalk lines as part of the surveying process is ...

Construction professionals constantly feel the challenge of time pressure on the modern jobsite, and hard-to-use or complex tools and working conditions may only combine to make the environment feel ...

No longer just for early adopters and pilot projects, robots on jobsites are becoming a reliable way to take on some of the most repetitive and demanding tasks Growing labor shortages continue to ...

When Logan Farrell places one of his Rugged Robots on the floor of a commercial construction project, it knows exactly what to do: draw the layout of the building. The robot references 3D computer ...

Leveraging Polaris Real-Time Kinematics Network (RTK), Civ’s robot rovers can translate construction plans to real-world layout markings that are accurate to within less than a centimeter Civ Robotics ...

This article is part of BD+C's special five-part Technology Report 2014: Top tech tools and trends for AEC professionals. Someday Building Teams may look back on today’s construction methods and ...

A straight wall is not necessarily a climate-optimized wall. Depending on the wall's exposure to sun and shade, there is an ideal angle for individual bricks. The calculations come from a digital ...

Dusty Robotics has announced the launch of its FieldPrint Platform, a BIM-to-field solution designed to keep contractors building on the same information. The FieldPrint Platform provides tools that ...

Having places to live, work, shop, and otherwise conduct our daily lives is critical. But someone has to build those structures, and someone has to account for all the various aspects and needs of the ...

The goal in geospatial surveying was always accurate data. Survey data is the real-world basis for any construction project, from the smallest building to a 16-mile-long tunnel snaking beneath the ...