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• It’s Technology Acquisition Time: Do You Know Where Your ROI Is?

  While our continuing efforts to find and deploy the “next best technology” to improve our work processes is deeply embedded in our managerial “DNA,” what appears to be the “best” can come at a steep cost, which may not be fully recoverable or meet expectations about its value for productivity gains. There’s been a “tool” [...]

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• AI: Driving Sustainability in Manufacturing

  Sustainability in manufacturing and the supply chain is important for many reasons. Today, this linear economy of take-make-waste, where we see material flow directly from resource extraction through manufacturing processes to landfills, has reached its capacity. And quite frankly, sustainability is often good for business and for the bottomline. In my book, Sustainable in a [...]

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• AI: Driving Sustainability in Construction

  Why is sustainability important, especially in design and construction? And can AI (artificial intelligence) help build more sustainable cities and infrastructure of the future? These are the questions we must be asking as we design and build the cities, homes, and infrastructure of tomorrow. Last week, we kicked off this blog series looking at resilience [...]

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• AI: Driving Resilience in Manufacturing

  Resilience is something we have talked about in the construction industry for decades, and it was certainly a conversation that came up in spades during the pandemic, especially as it relates to the supply chain. But it is a conversation we need to continue having on a more ongoing basis in all industries, especially in [...]

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• AI in Construction: At the Jobsite

  Summer is here in the United States, and in our summer blog series, we are talking about one of the hottest, most talked about technology of the decade: AI (artificial intelligence) and the impact it is having on the construction jobsite. If you have been following along here, then you know in the first phase [...]

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