Durham, NC, Tower Project Team Stays Informed With Buildots

In order to track progress, workers with Samet Construction are using 360° cameras on their hard hats to record their work on a 670,000-sq-ft, 27-story mixed-use tower in Durham, N.C. Using the twice-a-week reality captures, tech provider Buildots calculates project progress and makes recommendations based on its proprietary artificial intelligence technology. The Novus is the […]

Building with Inflatable Concrete Formwork and Other News

Here are our industrialized construction updates from February 2023. Automatic Construction, an NYC startup, was one of eight 2022 Construction Startup Competition winners. Alex Bell, the co-founder, presented the company’s concrete building solution at the competition’s Pitchday in October 2022. Bell’s and Tyler Robins’s company produces inflatable concrete formwork in a factory and transports it to the building […]

Productizing Sustainable Urban Housing with BJ Siegel

How do you take the learnings from Apple’s way of innovating products and apply them to housing? On WDBE Talks, you’ll hear how BJ Siegel pivoted from Apple to follow his passion at Juno, a proptech company. He will be a keynote speaker at WDBE 2023. In this episode, Aarni Heiskanen and his guest JB Siegel discuss: […]