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GroundBreakers highlights the innovative equipment, technology, companies, and individuals that are breaking new ground in the construction industry.

  1. 22/12/2021

    Autonomous Work Vehicle Trials Provide Insights for Both Honda and Black & Veatch

    Kenton Williams, U.S. project lead for Honda’s Autonomous Work Vehicle, and Tyler Parker, business optimization manager at construction engineering company Black & Veatch, discuss the development and application of this unique vehicle prototype, including the lessons learned from the field trials in which Black & Veatch is participating. They also look at what lies ahead for the technology and its potential for use on jobsites in future.

    19 min

  2. 10/12/2021

    Electrification Moves Toward Mainstream Heavy Equipment Application as Technology Advances

    Sara Jensen, editor of OEM Off-Highway magazine, talks with Nick Block, Director, Global Marketing & Sales, John Deere Power Systems, about how electrification is continuing to advance in the heavy equipment industry, including how technology improvements are enabling electrification to become more common and helping to increase efficiency.

    17 min

  3. 03/12/2021

    Asset Tracking Technology Deters Equipment Theft

    Eron Usow, Senior Director of Hardware Products at GPS Trackit, shares how asset tracking technology can help address the issue of equipment theft on today’s construction jobsites.

    18 min

  4. 24/11/2021

    Virtual Reality Delivers Real-world Feel to Caterpillar’s Simulator-based Heavy Equipment Training

    At the Caterpillar Year-end Press Event, Annette Kiesewetter, marketing strategist at SIMFORMOTION, a long-time Caterpillar partner in the development of simulator training technology, highlighted the latest advances, including how virtual reality is being used in tandem with simulators to provide a much more immersive training experience that can better equip operators to get behind the controls of real machines. She also shares how contractors are utilizing simulators in partnership with schools to build the next-generation workforce.

    16 min

  5. 17/11/2021

    A Look at Concrete Sensor Technology

    As a relatively young technology in the concrete construction industry, there’s an exciting future in store for the concrete sensor – a device with untapped potential. Editor Jonathan Kozlowski speaks with guests from Giatec, Hilti, and AOMS Technology about the history of the technology and the changes that made it what it is today.

    31 min

  6. 10/11/2021

    Cloud-based Estimating and Takeoff Efficiencies Boost Revenue an Average of 35%

    Phil Ogilby, CEO, Stack Construction Technologies, shares how utilizing the company’s cloud-based estimating and takeoff platform is able to lift revenue among its contractor customers an average of 35% by making the process easier and more efficient, enabling more bids to be pushed into the market.

    26 min

  7. 03/11/2021

    BIM and VR Become More Accessible to Small- to Mid-size Firms and Projects

    Ted Mort, chief innovation officer at ZELUS, highlights the advances made in building information modeling (BIM) and virtual reality adoption during the pandemic, its growing acceptance among smaller and mid-size construction firms and on smaller scale projects, as well as the opportunities the technology offers beyond building construction.

    28 min

  8. 27/10/2021

    Reality Capture Cameras Help Ryan Companies Track Project Progress and Substantially Cut Costs

    Mike Ernst, vice president of Insights & Innovation at Ryan Companies, shares how the company’s building division is using technologies such as StructionSite’s reality capture cameras to improve efficiencies and substantially reduce construction costs by enabling greater transparency into project progress and improving schedule performance.

    19 min
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GroundBreakers highlights the innovative equipment, technology, companies, and individuals that are breaking new ground in the construction industry.

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