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  • Top Construction Firms Teaming Up with Tech Companies to Increase Automation
    If the box-office appeal of superhero movies is any indication, many of us would appreciate super-strength and enhanced endurance.
    The construction industry is embracing robotic technology that is making that a reality, sort of.
    The construction robotics market is growing at a rate expected to reach $166.4M by 2023. That value was $60M in 2017.
    As industrial automation technology has grown, the innovations in machine vision have allowed the industry to expand from closely structured environments to the wildly varied world of highways and cities. The relative flexibility of a construction site, allows companies like Ekso Bionics to provide worker-assistance tool control arms to flourish.
    Caterpillar recently entered the conversation by purchasing strength augmenting exoskeleton manufacturer Sacros.
    These advances in technology should lead to more efficiency, and more importantly predictibility in construction timelines.
    2 min
  • New York Apartments Debuting VR Tours

    Here is your Pro AV Minute, brought to you by MarketScale. The Hudson Yards mega project is now giving tours of model apartments using the power of virtual reality. The excitement for the 917 foot tall Hudson Yards project has lead to the creation of virtual apartment tour of their upcoming accommodations. The VR Tours have 5 model apartments, that were created by a team of interior designers. These incredible spaces and breathtaking views can all be sampled from the comfort of your own home. The Hudson Yards project is proving to be innovative in both its construction and customer experience alike. I’m Bret Brown, and this has been your Pro AV Minute, brought to you by MarketScale.

    1 min
  • Drones Providing a Boost to Construction Companies
    As drone usage increases across all industries, construction companies are among those who are gaining the greatest benefits.
    A new Android app, developed by low-cost drone provider 3DR, is adding even more value and flexibility to that proposition.
    The app, called 3DR GCP, leverages the Catalyst hardware from Trimble (including a plug-and-play digital antenna that provides high-quality satellite data) to create reliable ground control points with consistent and manageable precision.
    Software company Esri adds to the industry with its Drone2Map software that can convert gathered data to a detailed map to be shared to the team via a cloud service.
    In an alternate strategy, Identified Technologies, Skycatch and Verity Positioning are all deploying solutions that create high accuracy site maps without the need to lay GCPs, at all.
    For an industry that depends on a clear vision to succeed, these technologies are providing a whole new viewpoint.
    2 min
  • New Facebook Campus Construction Cost Tops $1 Billion
    Facebook experienced an historic month in March 2015, when it opened MPK 20 on the Menlo Park Campus. According to a report by BuildZoom.com, the permit for that expansion carried a cost of $177 million dollars.
    That amount now seems small in comparison with two recently-filed permits, valued at $303M and $300M, respectively. These set a new record for the most expensive permits filed during this expansion of the company’s Menlo Park footprint. However, those records might not stand for long.
    Recent filings unveil plans that will include the construction of additional office buildings, an 8-story parking garage, and an elaborate sky-bridge that will grant access to the adjacent marshland trails. They also include an additional lease of several buildings within the Menlo Gateway Development on the northwestern side of the campus.
    While these projects will most likely include the vision of architect Frank Gehry, there is no confirmation, as of yet, if he will have a hand in the design of the proposed 200-unit hotel.
    2 min
  • NASA and Amazon Turn to France to Help Standardize Drones
    NASA and Amazon are turning to French engineers to help integrate drones into companies' daily operations. France was one of the first countries to regulate commercial drone use, meaning more years advancing machine-learning and artificial intelligence for drones. Several obstacles are still in the way, including funding, global regulations, and air-traffic safety.
    2 min

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