Value chain control drives modular profits

Listen to the article 2 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Modular firms with the highest returns typically build around a strong system and exercise control over the value chain, according to a modular construction report from consulting firm McKinsey. Profitability often rises when companies simplify, […]

New Business Models for Industrialized Construction

Daniel Hall is an Assistant Professor of Innovative and Industrial Construction at ETH Zurich. The theme of his research is to enhance governance, industrialization, circularity, and innovation in the construction industry through a transformation from fragmented project delivery methods to new organizational and informational models that integrate the complex supply chain. He holds a Doctor of […]

Balfour Beatty plans stateside AI hackathon

Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Balfour Beatty hopes to get employees’ creative juices flowing with an artificial intelligence hackathon, designed to create AI prototypes for solving common construction problems, the company told Construction Dive via email. The first-ever event of […]