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1:53Watch VideoBuildIt Explained
Digitization generates more timely and accurate data, enabling faster, more intelligent business decisions. The industry is beginning to realize that we need to modernize and transform to these...
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Read ArticleWhy All the Fuss About Digital Transformation?
What is so new about digital transformation? Haven’t we been using the internet, Web, email, and other digital tools for decades in our business? Wasn’t that what “e-business” was all about in the...
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Read ArticleDigitizing Construction; A New Level of Customer Experience
The next wave of intelligent, innovative technologies that build onto the cloud is emerging. We're eager to help guide the players in the heavy work supply chain and lead with innovative...
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Read ArticleDo You Really Understand What Actionable Insights Are?
“Actionable insights” seems to be a buzzword that people have been using lately, but it’s not clear that the distinction is fully recognized. Data, analytics, and insights are not the same thing...
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Read ArticleHow to Mitigate Risk With Fleet Management
Managing a fleet of heavy equipment in the construction industry brings the challenges of scheduling the equipment, monitoring usage and managing traffic at the jobsite, to name a few. And all fleet m
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Read ArticleClimate Change: What It Means for the Industry and How Technology Can Help
The construction industry has one of the lowest profit margins in comparison to other major industries. Tiny, unexpected weather mishaps can deem some projects unprofitable. Climate change can...
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Read ArticleCloud-Based Tech at Kiewit’s Innovation Expo
Command Alkon was pleased to participate at Kiewit’s Innovation Expo in Omaha, Nebraska yesterday. Our team focused their exhibit on BuildIt, a cloud-based environment where information that is...
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Read ArticleA Closer Look: Are You Facing a Labor Shortage – Or A Shortage of Labor?
In such tight labor market, it’s tough finding and retaining the workers with the skills and dedication you need to get the job done. The shortage of labor is increasingly problematic in the heavy...
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Read ArticleJob Site Waste: How to Control the Chaos
To the casual observer, most construction sites look like a busy, noisy, muddy mess, with mountains of materials and machinery (some in full operation; some seemingly abandoned), buzzed occasionally..
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Read ArticleInfrastructure Jobs Are on the Rise; BuildIt Can Help You Build It Better
The U.S. Department of Transportation announced $1.5 billion in supplemental grant funding to 91 projects in 49 states as well as the District of Columbia. The grants are made through the Better...
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Read FlipbookTransforming the Construction Materials Supply Chain
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Read ArticleEconomists Predict the State of the Construction Industry for 2019
An extended federal government shutdown and instability in the global markets started 2019 off with a shaky foundation. Yet, the U.S. construction industry is still projected to see favorable...
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Read ArticleDistinguished Design and Construction Company, Ferrovial, Recognized for Excellence in BuildIt
Command Alkon is pleased to recognize Ferrovial as the recipient for “Excellence in BuildIt” at Command Alkon’s ELEVATE Awards. This award celebrates BuildIt administrators or users that have been...
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Read ArticleInnovative Building Materials that Could Revolutionize Construction
Building materials like cement, wood, steel and glass often have limitations, including degradation and production-related environmental impacts. But new materials in the works could help companies...
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Read ArticleHow Integrated Project Delivery Supports Successful Construction Management
While most industries have doubled their productivity in the last five decades, construction has dramatically lagged until recently. Now practitioners turn to the Integrated Project Delivery (IPD)...
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Read ArticleCareer-Tracking Teens into Construction?
It’s no secret that there’s a years-long labor shortage in the construction industry. And it’s got some legislators and construction industry leaders thinking creatively...
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Read ArticleThe Future of Construction Automation
We need to start developing a healthier relationship with these sorts of technologies, because they are designed to have a symbiotic relationship with the user. The ability to monitor the movement...
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Read ArticlePush to Pursue Paperless Processes
The e-Construction effort involves using available technologies—including digital electronic signatures, electronic communication, secure file sharing, mobile devices and web-hosted data archival...
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Read Article103,900 Additional Workers Are Needed to Meet Ontario's Construction Needs
The construction labor shortage is a world-wide quandary – the Ontario construction market, led by the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), is expected to retain its intensity through the coming decade...
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Read ArticleControl Tower Visibility: More than a View from Above
The virtual control tower gives supply chain managers the ability to proactively address potential issues across all functional areas—working with business partners to anticipate and solve problems...
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