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Here are our picks from the latest construction technology news.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cYou look
\nat 5G wireless, artificial intelligence (AI), augmented reality (AR), these
\nare going to be three key technologies for your industry<\/strong>,\u201d Michael
\nHainsworth, executive producer of Futurithmic and co-host of the Geeks &
\nBeats podcast, told the audience at a talk billed Future Forward: Three Technologies That Will Change
\nOur World Forever<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A cost-to-coast BIM survey<\/a> in Canada received 398 respondents.
\nOver 80% of the respondents agree that adopting BIM can provide
\nvisualization benefits<\/strong>, but only 54% thinks it improves profitability. This
\nmakes you think whether BIM is still something extra, not a replacement of old
\npractices for many respondents.<\/p>\n

Netherlands
\nand Vietnam-based social enterprise\u00a0Upp!<\/a>\u00a0is on
\na mission to fight the global plastic pollution crisis<\/strong> by closing the
\nplastic waste loop with a local approach.\u00a0Using a circular economy
\napproach, Upp! hopes to save plastic waste from landfills and oceans by introducing\u00a0circular plastic
\nfactories<\/a> in 10 cities
\nby 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Toggle, a
\nBrooklyn-based 15-person startup that creates robotics that fabricate and
\nassemble rebar<\/strong>, scored $3 million in seed funding<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The
\nConstruction Industry is Poised for a Data Transformation<\/strong>. This data
\ntransformation has significant legs in construction, as evidenced by a recent report<\/a> by Dodge Data & Analytics and
\nViewpoint: Improving Performance with Project Data.<\/p>\n

Check out the 28 cities and projects<\/a> that will move on as finalists for
\nthe 2019 World Smart City Awards<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

News from the LA tech ecosystem<\/a>: BuildOps<\/strong> integrates
\nscheduling, dispatching, inventory management, contracts, workflow and
\naccounting into a single software package for commercial real estate
\ncontractors.<\/p>\n

Tide Construction<\/a>\u00a0has craned the last of 1,526
\nmodules into place on the world\u2019s tallest modular tower<\/strong><\/a> in Croydon.<\/p>\n

AI in
\nconstruction<\/strong>:
\ngenerative design, risk mitigation, safety\u2026 An article by Anand Rajagopal<\/a>, a data scientist at Autodesk.<\/p>\n

Alice
\nTechnologies<\/strong> develops an AI-based construction simulation platform. Disperse<\/strong> captures
\nand processes visual data from construction sites to create an interactive
\ndigital twin. Alice raised $8m and Disperse $15m
\nin Series A funding<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Intel bids
\nfor \u2018smartest building in the world\u2019<\/strong> title with new office. Check out the numbers<\/a>: 2,700 workstations, 143 conf.
\nrooms, 500+ smart screens, 14,000 sensors, 50-100 terabytes of data daily, a
\nBMS with 970 APIs and 60,000 input fields. 40% more energy efficient and 75%
\nless water consumed.<\/p>\n

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