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Volume 16 Number 04
Looking for the right app to get the job done? The Constructech App Catalog has the app for you.
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Volume 16 Number 03
A convergence of trends is driving construction companies and corporate owners to consider moving off traditional legacy-based systems and seek new solutions to keep up with the current demands of the industry. Terms like mobile, BIM (building information modeling), and collaboration aren’t just buzzwords anymore. Rather, these concepts and processes are leading contractors and owners toward a new way of thinking that encompasses a change both in business initiatives and technology adoption for 2013.
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Volume 16 Number 02
The housing market is the classic rollercoaster: up, then down, then going sideways, faster before slower, and then who knows where out of the tunnel. As we sit at the outset of a new year, it is anyone’s guess as to where this rollercoaster is headed. However, for all the ups and downs this market has experienced throughout the past few years, builders might be in store for a bit more predictability on this ride during 2013. Or at least we can hope.
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Volume 16 Number 01
Ford Motor Co., www.ford.com, Dearborn, Mich., was the first automaker to introduce a factory produced pickup truck back in 1925. This vehicle was modeled after Henry Ford’s Model T car, the vehicle he introduced to the world in 1908. Back then, vehicle buyers had very limited options when it came to purchasing pickup trucks nearly a century ago.
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Volume 15 Number 08
On time and under budget. These days it seems every builder across the country is laying claim to being able to deliver a project in such a manner. But just how many of these builders can actually live up to such pristine assertions is another story altogether. The fact of the matter, however, is this is the way in which the competition in homebuilding is promoting its level of services to the masses. Essentially this means that others in the market that can indeed deliver on such promises need to refine their overall message in order to stand out from the crowd.
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Volume 15 Number 07
The future of construction technology
has arrived. Amid a changing
competitive landscape in construction
that has claimed mor e than its
fair share of good quality construction
organizations throughout the
past few years, the future looks
bright, driven in part by changing
philosophies associated with technology
adoption from an industry that
has long ago shaken the stigma of
being considered a tech laggard.
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Volume 15 Number 06
Let’s talk about the different factors that are shaping the term ‘collaboration’ in construction these days and how project teams should be viewing different technologies as being an enabler to this idea.
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Volume 15 Number 04
Do green building projects cost more? Not necessarily. At least that is what many contractors are quickly discovering. The EPA, www.epa.gov, Washington, D.C., says integrated design processes can help identify the most efficient approaches to green buildings, which can ultimately reduce costs.
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Volume 15 Number 03
When thousands of workers from across the country descend upon the Hanford and White Plains area of Washington State in 1943 responding to a work request from the government, few, if any, were certain what type of work they were signing up to do. Just like the residents of these two farming and agricultural towns who were told to evacuate their homes and abandon their farms, the workers were told simply the land was to become an area for “important war work.”
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Volume 15 Number 02
John Bodrozic and wife Elizabeth Dodson noticed something strange. Only one year after moving into their newly built home, the carpets across their plush new living space were beginning to look worn and damaged, as if they were years old. After a bit of investigating they came to the conclusion that missed routine maintenance on the air filters in their furnace was the culprit of the damage.
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Volume 15 Number 01
Little did the late Steve Jobs realize the type of impact he would have on—of all things—the construction industry when he introduced the world to the iPad in 2010. Sure, mobility was already well entrenched in this industry at the time, and the idea of using a tablet on a job wasn’t groundbreaking by any means. Rather, it was the way in which such a device transformed the average person’s expectations of technology that would have the most profound effect on construction—along with many other industries—creating a trickle-down effect, essentially altering the way software and services would be delivered and consumed from here on out.
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Volume 14 Number 08
Could the homebuilding market be picking up? While remodeling activity continues to remain slow due to current economic conditions, new home sales rose 5.7% in September, which is the fastest pace of new-home sales in the past five months. While the market is not soaring by any means, the grim reality of years’ past seems to be dying down, as the market at least begins to steady out.
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