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Digital Evolution: Risks and Opportunities of Technology Trends in Construction

From AI to autonomous vehicles to blockchain to 5G to IoT, the challenge is keeping up with digital transformation even as the industry sorts through the hype and implications.
By Scott Unger and Sean Olcott
January 2, 2020
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by Scott Unger
Scott Unger is the co-founder and CEO of Kahua, the creator of the world’s only collaborative network for real estate and construction project management. He helps the world’s leading owners, contractors, architects and engineers to profitably deliver the highest performance capital projects at the lowest possible cost. Prior to Kahua, Scott was co-founder, president and CEO of Constructware, the first cloud-based SaaS project controls solution. Constructware was acquired by Autodesk in 2006, and he served on the Autodesk executive team following the acquisition. Scott has served as Chairman of the Board of Directors for Associated Builders and Contractors.
by Sean Olcott
Sean Olcott has been at the bleeding edge of industry innovation since 2006. Prior to joining Gafcon in 2013, Sean worked at industry start-ups that brought emerging solutions to the market for BIM, business process outsourcing, managed service cloud platforms and digital twin technologies. At Gafcon, he helps project owners make sense of the expanding alphabet soup of industry technology acronyms (PMIS, VDC, BI, EDMS, CMMS, BI, IoT, UAV, AR, VR, and more!) to design and implement solutions that enhance collaboration, drive accountability, and increase predictability on their capital building programs and projects.

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