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Unlocking Multiple Benefits with One BIM Model: A Civil Contractor's Story

BD+C

The company works with all aspects of infrastructure construction, such as highway and road construction, environmental projects, and bridges. Duna Aszfalt is also a leading company regarding asphalt technology, for example, they use low-energy asphalt (LEA) techniques in their pavement work.

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State of the Construction Industry: May Roundup

Viewpoint Construction Technology

Technology is here to save the day, though, with robotics to handle repetitive or dangerous tasks, wearable devices for tracking health and safety, quieter equipment, mobile apps and more. Survey: Mayors’ Top Concerns Include Infrastructure, Climate Change, Opioids. Infrastructure. One of their top concerns?

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State of the Construction Industry: June Roundup

Viewpoint Construction Technology

For many regions, summer is the season of road construction. This year, the AGC is using targeted web and mobile ads to educate motorists about the dangers, hoping to increasing safety for both workers and drivers. Our infrastructure could look different in the future, and businesses need to know what’s on the horizon.

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ARTBA Seeks Submissions for Student Video Contest

Construction Equipment

The American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) challenged students of all ages to produce a two- to four-minute video about their perceptions of America’s transportation infrastructure. economic growth and mobility; what the transportation systems might look like; and how they might be financed.'

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United Nations Declaration for Sustainable Architecture

Natural Building

Resource efficiency and circularity: every city, urban infrastructure and building should be designed in a way that limits the use of energy, uses only sustainable energy sources, reuses rainwater and limits the use of other natural resources and reduces resource losses.

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An Invisible Revolution: How Leading Construction Firms Are Rethinking Construction as a Business

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Others are new business ventures they created to conquer new markets: this is what we call Hyper Construction. 3 cases: Ferrovial, VINCI, Holcim Ferrovial Ferrovial is a leading global infrastructure and services company that operates in four main business areas: transportation, construction, services, and toll roads.

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The Drone Age

Business Facilities

The goal of the development of the UTM Corridor is to create the infrastructure that will support “beyond-visual-line-of-site” (also known as “over the horizon”) commercial drone operations. Or, to put it in drone-speak, we’re putting the UTM before the Mobile Skylight. The sky is literally the limit.