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Constructconnect | September 10, 2020

Existing technology designed to be worn by construction workers is teed up and ready to go but the usual barriers of cost and risk aversion is keeping it parked at the jobsite gate. While wearable monitors have been around for some time, they’re only being adopted at extreme high-risk jobs, such as petrochemical plants, oil rigs and remote wilderness locations where workers face hazards beyond slips and falls such as bears and wolves. The issue, says Keith Beckles, CEO of TechMarq, a Toron...

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United Engineers & Constructors | September 21, 2021

United Engineers & Constructors, Inc. (United), a leading infrastructure engineering, procurement, construction and consulting company, and Imperia Engineering Partners, Inc. (Imperia), a specialty engineering firm with unique capabilities including a materials engineering and failure analysis laboratory and nuclear engineering programs, together, announced today that the two companies will be joining forces to expand United’s engineering and construction services for the Energy genera...

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Republic Urban Properties & Blach/Cahill JV | October 14, 2021

Building partners at Gateway at Millbrae Station – Republic Urban Properties and Blach Construction/Cahill Contractors Joint Venture (Blach/Cahill) – have teamed up with Prescient Co., a construction technology company that aims to revolutionize the industry by speeding up construction time, substantially lowering project costs, and reducing waste.Gateway at Millbrae Station is one of the largest transit-oriented developments in the Western United States. The mixed-use complex, set t...

VentureBeat | April 23, 2020

Built Robotics executives are fond of saying that their autonomous system for construction equipment, like dozers and excavators, might be further along than many autonomous vehicles. In fact, CEO Noah Ready-Campbell insists you’ll see autonomous vehicles in controlled industrial environments - like construction sites — before you see level 5 driverless cars on public roads. That may be in part because autonomous construction equipment often operates on privately owned land, while pu...