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If your construction company wishes to maintain a competitive edge, you'll require to find ways to integrate new approaches into your strategy and workflows.
FREMONT, CA: Investing in the recent construction technology is supporting business owners to facilitate digital transformations and be ahead of the competition.
There are real, practical applications and advantages to modernizing your present processes. And if your construction company wishes to maintain a competitive edge, you'll require to find ways to integrate new approaches into your strategy and workflows.
These cutting-edge technologies dramatically change how the industry functions and how future projects will be concluded.
Types of Construction Technology Influencing the Industry:
• Data Collection Apps
• Drones
• Building Information Modeling (BIM) Software
• Virtual Reality and Wearables
• 3D Printing
• Artificial Intelligence
1. Data Collection Apps
Apps are turning more of the norm in construction, and for a good reason. The greater portability of tablets and smartphones enables greater communication and the ability to work from anywhere. Specifically, data collection apps support construction companies gather faster, more accurate, and higher quality data from the jobsite. Integrating this type of technology into your present processes is simple and needs a smaller upfront investment while still providing major benefits, comprising:
• Considerable time savings & lowered data entry errors. Data collection app users have reported exceeding 20 field and administrative hours saved each week and a 50 percent reduction in data entry errors.
• Enhanced workflows. You can automate data assemblage workflows, so the submission of one form provokes another form to be sent, and so on until a particular task is completed with all necessary sign-offs and collected data. Also, some data collection applications offer mobile and web forms apps so your team can submit forms on their smartphones, tablets, laptops, desktops – fundamentally, any digital device.
• Enhanced safety compliance. Data collection apps can expedite everything from daily equipment inspections to near-miss reporting to a comprehensive job safety analysis.
• Instant reporting. Whether you need daily job reports, quick turn-around on client deliverables, or fast access to legal documentation, a data collection app will help you streamline reporting. You can also easily customize reports according to your business needs.