Zoppas Industries

PBC Today | September 21, 2020

Jack Bird from Postage Supermarket discusses how an upcoming technological advancement, drone deliveries, may mix things up for the construction industry. He thinks that the focus is on ‘evolution’ not ‘revolution’ – which has always been the case for the industry, right? Long gone is the time when drone technology was seen as something from an action movie, or a development to be afraid of. Drones aren’t simply for the super-elite anymore, and they’re b...

CONSTRUCTION

Workorder | March 25, 2022

Workorder, Inc., a construction technology startup, has raised a $1.1 million pre-seed round from UBMB and Mucker Capital to assist in the launch of its innovative software for the construction industry. Spencer Gaffney from UBMB has joined the company’s board of directors. Workorder’s software is a first-of-its-kind for construction estimating, as it uses image recognition, deep learning, and optical character recognition, among other technologies, to automatically de...

Interesting Engineering | March 06, 2020

A term that was birthed out of a German drive for innovation has now come to exemplify the pinnacle of the modern industry. Since the 1840s, manufacturing and engineering has faced a rapid growth of capability. We have gained machine production, eventually shifting to computerized manufacturing and design. Ever since the rapid innovation period that was the industrial revolution, the manufacturing industry has been getting more data. Temperatures, rates of production, plant capabilities – ...

CONSTRUCTION

Lennar & Veev | November 19, 2021

Lennar, one of the nation's leading homebuilders, and Veev, a pioneer in vertically integrated end-to-end panelized building technology that enhances every aspect of the living experience, committed to a new residential community as a follow-on to Lennar's investment in Veev's $200-million financing rounds. The new Northern California community of 102 attached homes is expected to break ground in the coming months and will be the largest community to date exclusi...