The Trillion Dollar Promise – Delivering the Infrastructure Improvement and Jobs Act
Last year’s passage of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) set the stage for a once-in-a-generation transformation of our nation’s infrastructure.
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Progress in the New Year. Modernizing the nation’s infrastructure.
With the passage of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), the new year brings optimism and progress. For decades the country’s infrastructure has suffered...
The Hidden Cost of Materials in Transportation Infrastructure Construction
The careful management of materials in transportation construction is critical to ensuring the quality, integrity, and longevity of our roads and bridges.
Tech Focus: New Initiatives Push State DOTs to Adopt Digital Workflows
Delivering a project for a public agency in the U.S. can feel like a strange, parallel world compared to the commercial construction sector.
Technology will be key for contractors on IIJA jobs, say experts
The infrastructure act presents a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity” to digitize, according to one contech executive.
The 10 most innovative companies with fewer than 100 employees
Two of this year’s winners, HeadLight and ProStar, are B2B companies that help make construction projects more accountable above ground, and safer underground—especially notable given...
Why Deliver 21st-Century Infrastructure Using 20th-Century Technology?
The infrastructure industry is notoriously slow to adopt new technology and consequently has missed out on the benefits that other sectors have realized through modernization.
Contech companies’ revenue booms amid pandemic, supply chain issues
Employers dealt with the exacerbation of the labor shortage, myriad local and federal government policies and a bottlenecked supply chain, all of which either stalled...
Design-Build, the New Gold Standard of Heavy Civil Construction?
A recent report from the Federal Highway Association stated that “documented benefits of design-build for infrastructure construction include faster project delivery, improved constructability, less cost...
Louisiana DOT Field Trial Affirms HeadLight Reporting Value
Remember when the promise of technology was to save time, yet the opposite proved to be true, with project and inspection data entry adding additional...
Why Has Infrastructure Become a Common Target for Cybercriminals?
Hackers have identified infrastructure as a prime target for a number of reasons, many of which revolve around infrastructure agencies and organizations not adapting quickly...
The Need for Cybersecurity Modernization
We can prevent cybercrime and mitigate legacy system risk in infrastructure construction with cloud-based platform solutions.