Technology: Why Is This Trip Necessary?
Date Posted: March 30, 2015
Posted In: Ideas,
From ConAppGuru:
by Rob McKinney
Last week I attended the AGC of America at the Annual Convention in San Juan. I had the honor to join James Benham and co-present with him on his “Construction Technology Forecast: Harnessing Integration, Mobile, Sensors and Augmented Reality.” The presentation focused on the results of Mr. Benham’s survey of construction over 1,000 firms in 2014. The survey asked companies about their uses for technology on construction projects. Topics included…
– The Internet of Things: OnStar, IFTT, Nest…
– What is the “Cloud”? A self service, resource pooling, scalable, programmable thing…
– Software for Accounting, Estimating, and CRM.
– Type and usage of Mobile Devices.
One of Mr. Benham’s main points is…”The point of technology is too solve pain points in companies.” He asked the crowd “What do we bother?” He reminded the crowd about previous construction projects that did not use modern technology to build them such as the Giza Pyramids, the Empire State Building, and Hoover Dam.
It was interesting to learn Empire State Building (1930) had a rather short design period for plan delivery. How long did it take to deliver the full plans to the Owner? Would you believe just 2 weeks! The building is a copy of another building. It took less than a year to build without a computer.