7 Days of News – Week 43

Cooper Carry recently secured a Radical innovation Award (2019) for their modular hotel design. This deploys modular construction techniques to build ‘pop up’ hotels in interstitial spaces between buildings and allow them to ‘collapse’ once completed – unlocking new opportunities in crowded urban areas.   The UK-based Additive Manufacturing Technologies (AMT) have raised $5.2m to commercialize […]

KONE is Shaking Up the Industry with BIM

KONE supplies elevators, escalators, autowalks and maintenance and modernization solutions. I sat down with Kenneth Flannigan to discuss how BIM is changing KONE and what it means to the industry. Ken Flannigan KONE operates in over 60 countries, has around 1.3 million units in service, and moves over one billion people per day. The company’s […]

Leap CRM Now Connects Directly with ABC Supply

Leap has introduced a direct integration between its CRM platform and ABC Supply Co. Inc., the largest wholesale distributor of roofing and select exterior building materials in North America. The new connection enables contractors to browse branch catalogs, access real-time pricing, and place tracked orders directly within Leap CRM, streamlining estimates and eliminating manual data […]