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UrbanToronto | March 20, 2020

As the Covid-19 Coronavirus pandemic continues to have an impact on the economy, many businesses – sometimes entire industries – have either temporarily shut their doors or have implemented strong work from home policies for an indefinite period. The construction industry has not undergone a complete shutdown yet, with many construction sites open, despite social distancing advisories from all levels of government and health care professionals. Even with construction sites still oper...

Oracle | February 10, 2020

How Oracle Construction & Engineering’s Innovation Lab is encouraging collaboration and providing the gateway to an ecosystem that can support the plan, build and operate life cycle. Oracle boasts 40,000+ employees across nine industry specific business units. The genesis for Construction & Engineering was the acquisition, over ten years ago, of Primavera, a strategy which has continued with the purchase of Aconex, Textura and Skire - $3bn of acquisitions inside one global business...

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Prnewswire | April 20, 2023

SunGrid Holdings ("SunGrid") has acquired RA Electric, Inc. ("RA Electric"), an electrical services contractor based in southern California, specializing in numerous aspects of construction including new building construction, utilities, power conditioners, interconnections, installation of emergency generators, power conditioners, surge suppressors and U.P.S. systems. The acquisition will enable SunGrid to provide services to projects scaling from 1 MW to 1 ...

Buildots | April 08, 2020

With investors forecast to focus on contech when property development resumes, one Tel Aviv-based artificial intelligence construction technologies start-up has embarked on its global rollout starting in the UK. Buildots has pioneered on-site construction digitalised management, which it claims is the first of its kind in the industry. The product incorporates artificial intelligence and 3D computer vision technologies to provide on-site project teams with a platform which tracks activity and pr...