Technology in the Toolbelt: Not Just Banging Nails Anymore

Date Posted: September 16, 2013

Posted In: News,

From the Belleville News-Democrat:   The organic grocery store under construction in Fairview Heights is being built with the latest technology by a workforce trained to use it.

GPS and lasers are doing the work that tape measures and heavy equipment used to do to set building sites. Scott Kennedy, the field superintendent from Fairview Heights-based Impact Strategies who is overseeing construction of the 28,000-square-foot Fresh Thyme Farmers Market at Illinois 159 and Lincoln Trail, said the field has evolved and computers are rapidly sharing and disseminating these measurements, drawings and other information with all involved in the project.