Not too long ago, our communications team tweeted about an awesome masonry robot that can lay up to 1,200 bricks a day. But the robot cannot work alone; it must be teamed up with a human mason. Together, they do the work of four!
Category Archives: Collaboration
Face Your Challenges
Glenn Ebersole once wrote an article entitled “Viewpoint: Construction industry faces financial challenges in 2015.” I’m not sure how many of these challenges were specific to 2015—it seems to me these challenges have been part of the construction industry for a long time—but perhaps it is telling that these challenges remain even today. The challenges he enumerates are:
Are You Well Connected?
When I was a child, there was a sticker on the telephone at the house of an old relative. Yes, I mean the telephone (there was just the one). The official looking AT&T sticker read “wait for dial tone.” When we visited, I’d wait for no one to be looking so I could pick up the phone and listen. Sure enough, there was always a dial tone–the days of waiting for an operator or mechanical switch to connect a circuit were already gone (I’m not that old). Things were connected!
Spreadsheets Plus
In a Construction Technology Report survey, construction industry professionals made it clear that they use–and do not want to give up using–spreadsheets. Likewise, when I asked a new client if she used Microsoft Excel, she answered, “Extensively.” I can understand the original appeal: spreadsheets are easy-to-use and flexible, allow you to list things in an organized manner, and can perform complex or otherwise tedious calculations quickly.
Going Viral
“Going viral”
How many two-word phrases cause such excitement, curiosity, and interest?
Here’s a web definition: Viral phenomena are objects or patterns able to replicate themselves or convert other objects into copies of themselves when these objects are exposed to them. Viral has become a common way to describe how thoughts, information and trends move into and through a human population.
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