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Technology
Bluebeam Software’s Revu 11 simplifies project document collaboration
Collaborate on project documents and digitize technical reviews with Revu 11 from Bluebeam Software, which allows editing files from the cloud and annotating with an enhanced set of PDF markup and editing options. The Studio Projects Offline mode allows the project team to centrally maintain a master set, and Bluebeam Studio, Revu’s integrated cloud feature, […]
March 21, 2013
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Construction Equipment
Light Transmitting Concrete turns walls into screens
From a functionality standpoint, innovations like this may seem a bit silly to those of us who use concrete to, you know, build sturdy structures. That’s the most important property of concrete after all, right? Nonetheless, seeing a concrete wall transform around sunset from the gray boring slab you see to the right to the […]
March 15, 2013
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Technology
Behind the B15: The design process of Caterpillar’s rugged smartphone
Just a couple of weeks ago, Caterpillar launched a pretty surprising new product. Not a dozer or an excavator, but a phone. A very rugged smartphone. And to much excitement, I might add. The phone received copious amounts of coverage from mainsteam outlets and the consumer technology outlets alike at its debut during the Mobile […]
March 13, 2013
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Technology
Tablets, cloud services assist construction equipment manufacturers in field and on factory floor
In today’s highly automated world of manufacturing there is a new force entering the scene for construction equipment manufacturers—mobility. From tracking and monitoring production assets to insuring uptime, mobility has made its entrance via the iPad and is making sweeping changes in managing today’s complex manufacturing assets. Today we have technology that allows maintenance techs […]
March 8, 2013
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Technology
Drones may one day build skyscrapers
We’ve seen how unmanned aerial vehicles can be used for surveying. But how about being used to construct a full-fledged skyscraper on their own? The Smithsonian Magazine’s Design Decoded blog has a really interesting piece just that. According to the article, Swiss architects Gramazio & Kohler, in collaboration with Professor Raffaello D’Andrea, developed a method they call “Flight […]
March 4, 2013
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Technology
Contractor smartphone use surges; social media use sees modest gain
Contractors are dinged for being slow technology adaptors, but according to the 2013 Equipment World Internet Use and Social Media Survey, some of you are definitely starting to catch up. The survey was based on 302 mailed and emailed responses from contractors across the country. We did a similar survey in 2011, and quite frankly […]
March 4, 2013
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Technology
Chevy and GMC 2015 pickups will have 4G LTE, Wi-Fi built in
General Motors announced this week that its 2015 Chevrolet and GMC pickups will have the ability to connect to 4G LTE wireless data networks built-in. The first carrier partnership announced by GM is with AT&T but the automaker says it will announce more carrier and supplier relationships in the coming months. The data connection is built […]
February 26, 2013
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Technology
Researchers develop system to improve GPS accuracy in cities up to 90%
In the bustle of a city full of traffic, narrow streets, tall buildings, trees and other obstacle, GPS can have a hard time accurately locating a vehicle whether its your family sedan, or your dozer. In an open field, the margin of error of GPS location is 50 feet. But urban settings increase that mark […]
February 18, 2013
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Technology
BlackBerry reinvents itself with business-friendly Z10, Q10 smartphones
This morning in New York City, Research in Motion (which has re-named itself simply, BlackBerry) announced two new business-friendly BlackBerry devices that will run on the company’s new BlackBerry 10 operating system. The Z10 is an all-touch device while the Q10 features a physical QWERTY keyboard for those who like a little reassurance beneath […]
January 30, 2013
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Technology
Do you use tablets or smartphones on the jobsite?
Tablets and smartphones are becoming more and more common staples of our lives. We read books with them, watch movies with them, play games on them. And a lot of us do work with them. Of course, you can’t hammer a nail with a smartphone and you can’t drive an excavator with a tablet. Yet, […]
January 9, 2013
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Business
Construction companies must keep up with mobile tech
There appears to be an odd contrast between how technology meshes with our daily lives and how it mixes into our chosen field of construction. While new technology crops up at lightning speed and nearly to excess, there seems to be a dearth of technology within the construction industry. With so much continual development in […]
January 3, 2013
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Business
Construction industry spends least on IT
On average, construction companies only spend 1.35 percent of their revenues on information technology, placing the industry last behind 14 others in a report done by Gartner Research. Construction companies with revenue of $250 million were found to spend 1.6 percent of their revenues on IT, while those companies with revenue of $10 billion were […]
December 3, 2012
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