Proptech has a snappy technology answer to snap lines. The age-old method of multi-person crews laying out construction site dimensions by snapping chalk lines as part of the surveying process is ...

A 7,382-ton (7,500 metric ton), 13,222 square foot (4,030 square meter) building complex in Shanghai, China is being moved around 10 meters a day using an army of small robots. Consisting of a set of ...

Imagine a construction site where robots, not humans, are laying bricks with pinpoint precision, applying mortar flawlessly, and delivering materials exactly when and where they’re needed. This isn’t ...

Leveraging Polaris Real-Time Kinematics Network (RTK), Civ’s robot rovers can translate construction plans to real-world layout markings that are accurate to within less than a centimeter Civ Robotics ...

A straight wall is not necessarily a climate-optimized wall. Depending on the wall's exposure to sun and shade, there is an ideal angle for individual bricks. The calculations come from a digital ...

Civ Robotics now brings bot benefits to the planning stage of the construction process with autonomous, roving, battery-powered surveyors. While they're not quite ready to replace their human worker ...

Construction professionals constantly feel the challenge of time pressure on the modern jobsite, and hard-to-use or complex tools and working conditions may only combine to make the environment feel ...

This article is part of BD+C's special five-part Technology Report 2014: Top tech tools and trends for AEC professionals. Someday Building Teams may look back on today’s construction methods and ...

The number of solar field construction projects is expected to rise dramatically as McKinsey projects United States solar capacity to explode from 73 gigawatts in 2021 to 617 gigawatts in 2032.