How Technology Trends Are Improving the Construction Industry

The construction industry is one that constantly evolves in part due to rapid advances in technology and in response to consumer needs. Construction professionals should stay up to date with these developments. Here are a few technological trends to watch out for in the construction industry.

Realizing Energy Efficiency

Energy conservation and energy efficiency are more than just buzzwords within the green building niche. Contractors utilize a battery of green technologies, including energy-efficient paints to attain social and architectural goals.

Although still in its early stages of development, reflective energy-efficient paint technology has the goal to provide insulating and cooling solutions when applied to the exterior or interior of buildings and on infrastructures such as public roads and highways.

Minimizing Maintenance and Repair Costs

Cement is still a crucial material in the construction industry. In spite of the versatility of cement, maintenance and repair of structures built from this material are hardly cheap.

Innovators of self-repairing cement seek to minimize the post-construction costs of caring for cement structures.

Self-repairing concrete brings together the ingenuity of civil engineering with the marvels of marine biology where limestone-producing bacteria are infused into cement. The result is a building material that quickly heals or repairs itself at the first sign of a potentially catastrophic crack.

Assessing and Inspecting Construction Sites

Until recently, construction professionals have mostly had to assess and inspect different aspects of a construction project in person. This mechanical approach can be cumbersome and prone to errors.

Going forward, unmanned aerial vehicles will take over construction site assessment and inspection and collect and distribute information pertaining to a construction project.

Advances in drone technology will enable clearer footage and real-time interaction between the aerial vehicles and front-end applications such as project management software, wearables, apps, and mobile devices that the construction professional uses.

Modeling Building Information

The development of two-dimensional model buildings in construction is not new. However, advances in technology now allow for the creation of virtual, three-dimensional building models.

Such 3D models embody the precise appearance, albeit virtual, of the building throughout the project's lifecycle.

Additionally, construction professionals can utilize this technology to aggregate and manage the vast amount of data that typically spawn from construction projects. This way, a contractor is able to keep track of every aspect of the project from inception to completion.

Enhancing Workplace Safety



Workplace safety is a significant ongoing issue in construction. Unsurprisingly, the industry is seeing more and more technological solutions geared toward resolving the various safety concerns present at construction sites.

One such innovation making significant inroads in construction safety is anti-collision software. Anticollision software is a 3D system that utilizes sensors mounted on construction machinery and on-site workers to gather and analyze data such as wind speed, equipment weight, directional movement, etc.

The software transmits this information to front-end mobile devices. Using this data, the system uses autopilot controls, mounted on construction machines to identify and avert potential on-site accidents.

Massive and complex technologies such as the internet of things and simpler technologies such as project management software have significant implications for the present and future of the construction industry in terms of design, productivity, costs, and safety. In addition to leveraging technology for your construction project, implementing sound subcontracting practices can improve your bottom line.

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