EIS InsightsConstruction Technology

A New Building Arrives With Thousands of Documents and Almost No Usable Data

Construction teams now design and coordinate buildings in rich digital models, yet owners often receive boxes of drawings, scanned manuals and spreadsheets at handover. The information that would make a building cheaper to run, safer to maintain and easier to adapt is frequently…

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Construction Sped Up Everywhere Except the Permit Office

Prefabrication, robotics, and building information modeling have compressed the actual time it takes to put up a structure. None of that speed matters much once the project reaches a permitting and inspection process still running largely on paper forms, manual routing, and week…

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Construction Cannot Hire Its Way Out of the Labor Shortage, So It Is Automating Instead

A wave of skilled tradespeople is retiring faster than new workers are entering the field, and construction firms have largely stopped assuming the gap will close through recruitment alone. Bricklaying robots, autonomous earthmoving equipment, and rebar-tying machines are moving…

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