Ask The Thought Leaders: What’s the Future of Construction?

Mysteries around construction during ancient times still exist today.How did the pyramids really get built? What really happened at Stonehenge?

While historians will continue to debate how these ancient marvels were built, the rest of us may never know for sure. The one thing we do know is that construction has changed a lot.

And if you look forwards the future, it’s clear that even bigger change is on the horizon. So get a better understanding of what the future of construction looks like, we reached out to industry experts and asked:

What’s the future of construction?

Here’s what we discovered…

Ken Smerz, President& CEO of Eco3d

“Eco3d specializes in 3d measurement technology – the fastest, most accurate form of measurement – and in producing 2d/3d digital representations of the collected data for the construction industry. As a leader in this field, we’ve employed LiDAR technology for as-built for quite some time and we’re now seeing an upward trend for applications in new construction as well.

I believe that this increased utilization is due to the immediately realizable value in terms of time and materials costs. Once an owner, architect or project manager has experienced first-hand the speed and level of accuracy achievable, they are usually loyal converts. Savings due to schedule compression and the ability to pre-fabricate materials offsite to exact dimensions make a highly favorable impact on a project budget. We’re also able to uncover critical conditions ahead of demolition and/or construction allowing the team to mitigate previously unforeseen issues in advance, which again contains costs”