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CONSTRUCTION

Hilti | July 14, 2022

Hilti North America, a global leader providing innovative tools, technology, software, and services to the commercial construction industry has streamlined the base plate design workflow for PROFIS Engineering Suite users by integrating the cloud-based software with Bentley's RAM Structural System. The agreement with Bentley Systems, the infrastructure engineering software company, gives structural engineers and designers the ability to transfer designs quicker and more accurately between th...

ENGINEERING TECH

Agora | August 12, 2021

Agora, the industry-leading commercial construction procurement platform, today announced its $33 million Series B funding round led by Tiger Global, with additional key investments from 8VC, Tishman Speyer, Jerry Yang, Michael Ovitz, DST, LeFrak, and Kevin Hartz. Commercial trade contractors use Agora to order and track materials, automate manual data entry, and bring all their supply chain stakeholders together onto a single platform for seamless communication. Agora's software solution is...

PBC Today | September 02, 2020

There has been a 41% decrease in the number of Covid-19 breaches on construction sites over the last three months, according to the Building Safety Group (BSG). The drop in Covid-19 breaches on construction sites has been attributed to more companies successfully adapting to new working practices. Over time it is expected that this trend will continue as the industry becomes more accustomed to operating under the restrictions imposed by the coronavirus. BSG’s report is based on 4,400 indep...

TechHQ | July 16, 2020

The phrase ‘chaos engineering’ has leftfield allure, but beneath the label, it’s simply about best practice. A discipline pioneered at streaming giant Netflix, chaos engineering is “thoughtful planned experiments designed to reveal results to reveal weaknesses in our systems and in our teams and processes.” That’s the definition lent by Kolton Andrus. He’s former Amazon and Netflix engineering stock, and now founder and CEO ...