GroundBreakers - ForConstructionPros

Kenton Williams, U.S. project lead for Honda’s Autonomous Work Vehicle, and Tyler Parker, business optimization manager at construction engineering company Black & Veatch, discuss the development and application of this unique vehicle prototype, including the lessons learned from the field trials in which Black & Veatch is participating. They also look at what lies ahead for the technology and its potential for use on jobsites in future.

Sara Jensen, editor of OEM Off-Highway magazine, talks with Nick Block, Director, Global Marketing & Sales, John Deere Power Systems, about how electrification is continuing to advance in the heavy equipment industry, including how technology improvements are enabling electrification to become more common and helping to increase efficiency.

Eron Usow, Senior Director of Hardware Products at GPS Trackit, shares how asset tracking technology can help address the issue of equipment theft on today’s construction jobsites.

At the Caterpillar Year-end Press Event, Annette Kiesewetter, marketing strategist at SIMFORMOTION, a long-time Caterpillar partner in the development of simulator training technology, highlighted the latest advances, including how virtual reality is being used in tandem with simulators to provide a much more immersive training experience that can better equip operators to get behind the controls of real machines. She also shares how contractors are utilizing simulators in partnership with schools to build the next-generation workforce.

As a relatively young technology in the concrete construction industry, there’s an exciting future in store for the concrete sensor – a device with untapped potential. Editor Jonathan Kozlowski speaks with guests from Giatec, Hilti, and AOMS Technology about the history of the technology and the changes that made it what it is today.

Phil Ogilby, CEO, Stack Construction Technologies, shares how utilizing the company’s cloud-based estimating and takeoff platform is able to lift revenue among its contractor customers an average of 35% by making the process easier and more efficient, enabling more bids to be pushed into the market.

Ted Mort, chief innovation officer at ZELUS, highlights the advances made in building information modeling (BIM) and virtual reality adoption during the pandemic, its growing acceptance among smaller and mid-size construction firms and on smaller scale projects, as well as the opportunities the technology offers beyond building construction.

Mike Ernst, vice president of Insights & Innovation at Ryan Companies, shares how the company’s building division is using technologies such as StructionSite’s reality capture cameras to improve efficiencies and substantially reduce construction costs by enabling greater transparency into project progress and improving schedule performance.

CompanyCam can streamline the workflow in your construction applications by creating chronologically automated photo documentation of each project and sharing it with all stakeholders as the project progresses. Luke Hansen, the founder of CompanyCam, discusses how he developed the product to address issues faced by his family’s construction business and how the product can increase a contractor’s efficiency. To learn more about how CompanyCam can streamline your workflow, visit https://companycam.com

Saurabh Ladha, co-founder and CEO at Doxel, shares how AI-powered Project Controls can help monitor project progress and identify and mitigate potential problems before they happen – keeping projects of various sizes on time and on, or even below, budget.