Technology

The two-story mural of Andre Young, better known as Dr. Dre, looms large on a wall near the entrance of the newly rebuilt Compton High School. The rapper was born and raised in Compton—one of Los Angeles County’s poorest cities—and he donated $10 million for the California school...

The wheel. The aqueduct. The smart phone. Like any pivotal invention, Green Badger was born out of necessity, frustration and inspiration. While employed as a director of sustainability at a real estate development firm out of Savannah, Georgia, in the early 2000s, Tommy Linstrot...

You’ve all heard the cliché: If you fail to prepare, you should prepare to fail. When it comes to natural disasters, that cannot be more true. From hurricanes to flash floods to forest fires, the last few years have been riddled with more natural disasters—and subsequent disaste...

Paul Doherty has worn more hats than most in the built environment. Trained as an architect in Manhattan, he detoured into technology early in his career—designing trade show booths for IBM in the late 1980s, back when Apple was still an upstart. That experience sparked a revelat...

When Paul Hedgepath walks a construction site, he doesn’t just see steel beams, scaffolding and concrete. He sees the invisible data streams that help keep multimillion-dollar projects on schedule and under budget—much of it captured by drones buzzing silently overhead. “Drones ...

Inside a Lansing, Michigan, elementary school lives the first-ever AI-designed electrical system. This may beg the questions: Why here? Why now? Augmenta, the company that created the agentic AI technology used by C&R Electric at Mt. Hope Elementary School, sat down with Constr...

Dodge released a new research report: The Value of ERP for General and Specialty Trade Contractors. Jeff Weiss, chief revenue officer at CMiC, is here to break down the findings: How does the rate of ERP adoption in construction compare to that of the adoption of other technolog...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 11—Associated Builders and Contractors today unveiled the members of its fifth annual Tech Alliance—a cohort of leading technology companies built to create construction tech solutions for the association’s contractor members, which primarily perform work in the...

In today’s construction environment, every executive understands the importance of risk mitigation. They build entire strategies around it: contingency planning, procurement buffering, subcontractor prequalification and, yes, even tariff management. They know that an unexpected s...

The construction industry faces persistent challenges, including rising materials costs, an unpredictable supply chain and ongoing labor shortages. And small and midsize businesses—SMBs—in construction are navigating industry shifts such as the move towards smart cities, sustaina...