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Meet Diverge, Hensel Phelps' new ConTech investment company

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Meet Diverge, Hensel Phelps' new ConTech investment company 0 dbarista Fri, 05/12/2023 - 11:24 Thai Nguyen, Director of Innovation with Hensel Phelps, discusses the construction giant's new startup investment platform, Diverge. Can you give me a few examples of where Hensel Phelps might see near-term benefits from Diverge?

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The Weekly Show, April 8, 2021: SPOT the autonomous robot, and Woods Bagot's in-house 'futurist'

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This week on The Weekly show, BD+C editors speak with AEC industry leaders from Procon Consulting, Virginia Tech, and Woods Bagot about: . How Woods Bagot's new "futurist" is promoting innovation at the international design firm. . SPOT, the autonomous robot for construction progress monitoring applications. •

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7 AEC industry disruptors and their groundbreaking achievements

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From building prefab factories in the sky to incubating the next generation of AEC tech startups, our 2019 class of AEC Innovators demonstrates that the industry is poised for a shakeup. Meet BD+C ’s 2019 AEC Innovators. . .

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Meet Spot: A robot that’s being tested to keep construction sites clean

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Meet Spot: A robot that’s being tested to keep construction sites clean 0 qpurcell Tue, 03/14/2023 - 07:57 AEC Tech What if we could increase consistency and efficiency with housekeeping by automating this process with a robot? Introducing: Spot.

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Reaping the benefits of offsite construction, with ICC's Ryan Colker    

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Reaping the benefits of offsite construction, with ICC's Ryan Colker 0 dbarista Tue, 03/14/2023 - 14:24 Ryan Colker, VP of Innovation at the International Code Council, discusses how municipal regulations and inspections are keeping up with the expansion of off-site manufacturing for commercial construction.

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What is your firm's innovation 'hit rate'?

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For the better part of a decade, we’ve watched AEC firms and real estate owners and developers pluck business practices, technology, and talent from the tech and manufacturing industries—digital workflows, automation, innovation competitions, hackathons, maker culture, Lean operations, technologies like predictive analytics, AI, and immersive reality. (..)

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Smart buildings take hold: 8 ways smart tech is transforming commercial buildings

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Buoyed by a surge of high-tech innovations and several years of robust U.S. construction markets, AEC teams are working on ideas for “smart buildings.” Since the mid-1980s, a new generation of products, technologies, and analytical tools has transformed the building landscape.