Patrick Tarrant is the founder and CEO of Crane Management, a consulting agency for construction companies in New York City. A well-known industry professional with more than 40 years of experience, Tarrant is frequently hired as an expert witness in construction…
Change Leaders Interview: Technology Is Changing Construction More Than Ever Before
Investing in the most advanced technologies for surveying and monitoring projects has become essential, marking a turning point for an industry that often…
Watch How Tappan Zee Bridge’s Main Span Towers Will be Constructed
Construction of the new Tappan Zee Bridge is halfway done. Work on the massive $4-billion project has reached the 50 percent mark two years after it started,…
Greg Bentley Interview Part 2: Lifecycle Management, Productizing Services and Tech Uptake in Construction
Informed Infrastructure interviewed Greg Bentley, the CEO of Bentley Systems, at the Year In Infrastructure Event held Nov. 1-3, 2017, at the Hilton London Metropole. In Part 2 of this interview, he discusses the importance of lifecycle management and the…
RIB Software and Autodesk Collaborate to Deliver an Integrated 5D BIM Solution for Construction
We all know intuitively that construction is an important industry to global economic health – and organizations, including the World Economic Forum, have recently heralded the need for change in the industry to unlock the potential to serve the needs of…
Better BIM: Laser Scanning Improves Accuracy and Speed in Onsite Data Acquisition
By Chew Beow Kwan Building information modeling (BIM) first came about in the 1970s, but its methods have been refined considerably since then. Widely used by city planners, architects and civil engineers today, BIM enables stakeholders to better make high-impact…
Milwaukee Construction Activity Picks Up in 2016
Mortenson Construction has released its quarterly Construction Cost Index Report for Milwaukee along with five other metropolitan areas in the U.S. According to the report, construction activity in Milwaukee has grown 2 percent over the last two quarters…
AECOM Wins Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport Contract
LOS ANGELES, July 11, 2016 — AECOM (NYSE:ACM), a premier, fully integrated global infrastructure firm, announced today that it has been awarded a new five-year contract to provide program management and construction management (PM/CM) services at the Dallas/Fort…
World’s Largest Telescope to Be Placed on Chilean Mountain Top
Take some of the world’s most sensitive astronomical instruments including more than 900 mirrors with a diameter of up to 4.5 meters - 798 of them are hexagonal and extremely vulnerable to changes in temperature and mechanical shock. Add some very advanced…
Kestrel Introduces the 5200 Professional Environmental Meter
Boothwyn, PA, June 30, 2016 – Kestrel Weather Instruments, a Nielsen-Kellerman brand, has launched the Kestrel 5200 Professional Environmental Meter to the construction industry to provide weather and building performance readings critical to delivering…
