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Laser scanning of New York Route 17 upgrade gets nod from American Council of Engineering Companies

The American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) of New York has honored one of Erdman Anthony’s projects as among the best in the northeast region. The firm’s entry, laser scanning of New York Route 17 Upgrade to I-86, exit 131, earned a Silver Award in the category of surveying and mapping technology. Considered the Academy […]

April 1, 2010

Machine control

Grade at double your dozer’s normal speed, accuracy

If you haven’t checked out the advances in machine control technology lately, now’s the time to do so. Topcon Positioning Systems showcased its 3D-MC2 at the World of Concrete in Las Vegas, Nevada, last week and its customers’ results are worth sharing. One bulldozer operator reported double the grading accuracy at double the speed he achieved […]

January 15, 2010

The digital hardhart

OEMs have most of today’s new machines wired to the Internet. Why not wire up your hardhat? This is a project from Purdue’s University’s Emerging Construction Technologies website. The rest of the site is worth trolling around in if you’re addicted to this kind of stuff.

January 15, 2010

England’s ‘intelligent speed adaptation’ technology

This is spooky. A group called Transport for London is launching a six-month trial of a technology that will automatically govern the speed of vehicles on the road and adjust that speed to changing traffic and weather conditions. The goal is to reduce accidents and reduce congestion. Then again, they have to do something. England […]

January 15, 2010

India developing construction robot for moon

All those years of packing their kids off to U.S. engineering schools is starting to pay off. Scientists in India plan to send a robot named Roony to the moon in 2012 to build a small cabin there. Good for them. I just hope they don’t finance it with a U.S. mortgage.

January 15, 2010

Consortium formed for construction users of RFIDs

This could be big news if you’re in a large construction company that struggles with inventory and material handling logistics. RFIDs are widely used in industial applicatons but tech-savvy construction companies are beginning to find uses for them as well. RFID’s are radio frequency identification tags, to put it a bit crudely, they’re like “active” bar […]

January 11, 2010

Voice recognition telephone tool

Contractor road-warriors will like this new telephone service from Google. Next time you need to call a business, but don’t have the number handy, dial the 800 number listed in the link. It will ask you say the state and city. Then it will ask you the name of the company or business you’re looking […]

January 6, 2010

Write a construction app, keep 70% of the profits

Unless you follow the doings at Apple Corp. as obsessively as my kids do, you may not have realized that the company has invited its customers to write applications (software programs) for its iPhone. If they accept your app, they give you 70 percent of the revenues. What’s that got to do with construction? Nothing until […]

January 6, 2010

Germans create a steel version of “Velcro”

And the all-metal hook and loop stuff will hold up to 35 tonnes. There’s got to be a good use for this somewhere.

September 16, 2009

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