Enlightening the “Dark Fiber” Issue
by Owen Graham, Business Development Manager, Arch Fiber Networks I suspect that many St. Louis building owners don’t know they have options when they sign a contract with a traditional...
View ArticleUnlocking the Data Treasure Chest
From Engineering News-Record: Construction technology leaders and software developers are preparing for a massive storm of innovation as the industry moves its data and processes to the cloud. The...
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Fed Adds Categorized Monthly Construction Spending Data
FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis) has added 48 monthly series from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Construction Spending release. The information is available in...
View ArticleEnlightening the “Dark Fiber” Issue
by Owen Graham, Business Development Manager, Arch Fiber Networks I suspect that many St. Louis building owners don’t know they have options when they sign a contract with a traditional...
View ArticleUnlocking the Data Treasure Chest
From Engineering News-Record: Construction technology leaders and software developers are preparing for a massive storm of innovation as the industry moves its data and processes to the cloud. The...
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Fed Adds Categorized Monthly Construction Spending Data
FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis) has added 48 monthly series from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Construction Spending release. The information is available in...
View ArticleConstruction’s Future in Building Smart Cities
From Procore Jobsite: Science Fiction for decades has tantalized us with dramatic sweeping images of futuristic neon-lit cityscapes, hovering cars meandering their way through foggy skies past...
View ArticleRebuilding the STL Region: From the ‘As-Built’ to the Possible Future
by Tom Finan, Executive Director, Construction Forum STL One of the biggest issues in rehabilitating or repurposing an historic building is that – even when dogeared, yellowed drawings exist – the...
View ArticleWhy Construction Industry Doesn’t Have to be Disrupted by Technology
From Construction Business Owner: It’s a popular belief that disruption is good for any industry. Innovation breeds competition, which, in turn, provides smart new services, increases consumer choice...
View ArticleTrimble Introduces New Compact-Sized Tablet for Geospatial Field Applications
From The American Surveyor: Trimble announced today the launch of the latest addition to its portfolio of data collectors—the Trimble® T7 tablet. Purpose-built for survey and Geographic Information...
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Data Architect Jonathan Leek Works to Quantify the Hidden Cost of STL...
From UMSL Daily: It can be hard to miss the broken windows, boarded-up doors and collapsing roofs on the red brick buildings while driving through certain neighborhoods in the city of St. Louis....
View Article4 Priorities for a Better Built Environment in the Post-COVID City
From World Economic Forum: Cities are the engine rooms of global prosperity, but they must be properly managed. The trend towards ESG investments will impact urban infrastructure. A strong regulatory...
View ArticleWhy Data and Measurement Are Key to a Circular Economy Transition
From GreenBiz: Measuring financial results, customer retention, productivity and inventory are all commonplace, but these measurements alone are no longer enough to tell a business whether it will...
View ArticleThe City Governments That Have Mastered Data
From Bloomberg CityLab: If one thing has thrived during Covid-19, it is the data dashboard. Months into the pandemic, city halls, counties and every state across the U.S. had their own spin-off of the...
View ArticleContractors Lost $1.8T Globally in 2020 Due to Bad Data, New Report Says
From ConstructionDive: Construction technology firm Autodesk has released a new study on Sept. 14 with management consulting firm FMI Corp. on the prevalence of data usage in construction and the...
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