We were pleased to be asked to speak at the Command Alkon ELEVATE 2017 customer conference this past week. As the theme implies, creating ways to offer more customer value was a topic of extensive discussion. The Idencia presentation was Connected Concrete: An Opportunity to Lead. Since this was ...

As project owners and contractors adapt to the demands of the coming infrastructure boom, precast and prestressed concrete manufacturers will be forced to redefine the nature of the products they provide. They will have to deliver "Connected Concrete", concrete that can deliver information.

The construction industry has lagged the general economy in productivity growth for 70 years. With $4.6 trillion of infrastructure rebuilding required over the next 8 years, project owners will be pressed to achieve maximum cost efficiency in order to stretch limited funding dollars as far as ...

A future of crumbling roads and bridges, trillions of dollars in investment needs, a national economy that requires modern infrastructure to remain competitive globally and the inevitable transition to 'Smart Cities'. These are all factors that create the highest stakes confronting federal, state ...

Texas is rapidly becoming one of the most active states in using RFID tracking for managing production and inventory control of precast concrete. Why? For one reason, precast and prestressed concrete producers selling to TX DOT are required to produce production and quality assurance records known ...

In Reinventing Construction: A Route to Higher Productivity, the McKinsey Global Institute estimates that improved efficiency in procurement and supply chain management can produce a 7-8% improvement in construction productivity. Effective utilization of technology is estimated to produce a 14-15% ...

All of a sudden it seems that everyone is interested in 'Smart Cities'. Publishers are creating periodicals dedicated to them (our favorite is Smart Cities Dive); in 2016 the venture capital community invested $2.7 billion in the sector; and now business accelerators (DreamIt and Urban-X, to name ...

On May 17, Dodge Data & Analytics released a new report on the use of BIM in the civil construction market. BIM, an acronym for building information modeling, is a 3D model-based process used by architecture, engineering, construction and asset management professionals in the design, planning, ...

Precast and prestressed concrete producers are embracing RFID tracking for the productivity it provides them with paperless quality control, inventory management, GPS tracking and production management. The added advantage is that they are well poised to serve as preferred vendors for state ...