GroundBreakers - ForConstructionPros

Cameron Page, CEO at Extracker, highlights the challenges construction companies can face when onboarding new technology into their operations, and shares tips on how to ease the “pain” of technology adoption and ensure successful integration into your business.

Brian Henning highlights benefits of the 310 X Tier concept engineering machine that was demonstrated at Utility Expo in Louisville, KY. Advantages include operating inside of buildings or noise sensitive areas like hospitals. The design is intended to provide substantially lower daily operating costs, lower jobsite noise, enhanced machine reliability, and zero tailpipe emissions.

Joe Ursinii, vice president of operations at ModularDesign+, discusses how modular design and construction can reduce risks and costs on commercial building projects, as well as ways in which it can be integrated into, and help to innovate, the building process.

Digital twin technology, while new, is already improving communication and coordination in construction. Dave Burns, vice president of project delivery and emerging tech at McCarthy Building Companies, explains what digital twin technology is within the construction industry. He goes on to say digital twin technology can help with decision making, planning, monitoring accurate current conditions, reality capture, data collection, environmental monitoring, post-construction and more. 

In this episode, Asphalt Contractor editor-in-chief Jessica Lombardo talks to Pam Fisher, Director of Economic Development for the Indiana DOT. Jessica & Pam discuss how the Indiana DOT is using connected vehicle data to both improve safety and future-proof their infrastructure investments. Using technology like Wejo, the Indiana DOT is able to advance their understanding of how connected vehicle data could make their roadways safer. 

In this episode of Ground Breakers, Concrete Contractor editor Jonathan Kozlowski connects with Zach Mannheimer, founder and CEO of Alquist 3D – a Virginia-based 3D concrete printing contractor. They are part of a handful of 3D concrete printing companies here in the U.S. and recently broke ground on a new construction early June 2021. We spoke about the impact the technology can have on the construction industry, the potential benefits contractors can find with the technology, and even discussed a bit about how it works.

Carter Johnson, VDC engineer, describes how continuing discovery of uses for regular drone survey data progressed from supporting select tasks to becoming an integral tool in coordinating replacement of an international airport terminal

In this week’s episode of Ground Breakers, editor Sara Jensen speaks with Jared Aho, Director of Marketing, Transportation at NI, about the company’s new collaboration with Seagate which aims to improve testing and development of autonomous vehicles. NI’s high performance in-vehicle data logging systems will be brought together with Seagate’s data transfer and edge storage services to help original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and suppliers efficiently leverage data to ensure the safety and reliability of autonomous vehicles.

In this throwback episode of the GroundBreakers podcast from CONEXPO 2020, Fred Rio, Director Construction Digital Technologies at Caterpillar, talks about where the industry is on the pathway toward autonomous technology on the jobsite and what autonomy could mean for construction business owners and equipment operators.

Caterpillar is bringing autonomy to the market with three fundamental blocks: making machines smarter, introducing remote control operation and a back office system that can monitor jobsite progress and dispatch to the machines.

In this episode, Fred Guitton, chief revenue officer, RedTeam Software, looks at the various aspects of risk management on construction jobsites and the ways in which construction management software can help you to mitigate those risks; better manage and understand project costs; save time through improved organization; and ultimately reduce stress on your jobsites.