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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...

PBC Today | April 28, 2020

Ryan Dempsey, founder and chief executive of The Compliance Workbook, shares his entrepreneurial mindset journey. When I was sat at home, looking at hundreds of compliance documents which would eventually require my signature to confirm the correctness, I couldn’t help but think there has to be a better solution. I mean, we recently shot a satellite from Earth which travelled for years to land on a comet travelling at thousands of miles an hour. Yet here I was looking at sim...

Phys.org | January 17, 2020

Climate engineering may offer a last-ditch technological solution to catastrophic climate change, but who makes the decisions on which solutions to implement, and who the beneficiaries will be? Once we start fiddling with the Earth's fundamental processes, where will it end? Schalk Mouton asks Professor Bob Scholes. Climate engineering, formerly known as geoengineering, are big-scale technological solutions to fight climate change if we fail in doing the obvious thing, which is to urgently a...

Engineering Tech

McKim & Creed | September 02, 2021

McKim & Creed, one of the largest engineering and surveying firms in the US, announced today that it has acquired Texas Engineering And Mapping Company (T.E.A.M.), a Houston-based firm that specializes in land surveying, site development engineering and subdivision platting. T.E.A.M. was established in 1995 by Greg Schmidt, PE, RPLS and Carlos Barillas, PE, and has grown to 25 employees and 1,500 clients. T.E.A.M.'s work centers around development/redevelopment of schools,...