Precis Engineering

PBC Today | August 19, 2020

John Sisk & Sons deployed Site Progress Mobile from Elecosoft to deliver woodland cabins for Center Parcs.In late 2017, John Sisk & Son (Sisk) was awarded the contract to build the guest lodges and central leisure buildings at the hotly anticipated €233m Center Parcs at Longford Forest near Ballymahon in Ireland. It would accommodate up to 2,500 guests in nearly 470 lodges, distributed across the 400 acres of beautiful woodland.With 466 individual lodges to build over 68...

PBC Today | June 25, 2020

Metal composite panels are becoming a commercial builder’s dream. Lightweight, structurally tough and watertight, they can be erected very quickly and provide the ultimate U value. The internals, such as flooring and fit-out, and external fixtures such as screening can be worked on simultaneously, saving a fortune in time and labour. Add to this the fact that the panels’ lack of weight means further savings on the cost of designing and laying foundations, and it’...

Construction

Extracker | June 09, 2022

Extracker, the construction industry's only change order communication platform, which digitizes manual workflows and creates financial transparency between construction stakeholders, has raised $7 million in an oversubscribed Series A. Leading the round is Cloud Apps Capital Partners, joined by the construction tech veterans at Building Ventures, and follow-on investment from Jackson Square Ventures who led the Seed round in June 2021. Joining the board are Andy Stinnes, gene...

Engineering Tech,Construction

Larson Design Group | January 02, 2023

Larson Design Group (LDG), a leading architecture, engineering, and professional consulting firm, recently announced its acquisition of ZRHD, an engineering consulting firm with deep expertise in the designing of mechanical and electrical systems for federal, commercial, institutional, and industrial sectors. The merger will be in effect from January 1, 2023, and will bring to LDG a team with extensive experience in building systems engineering. For the federal, education, and com...