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• The Future of Infrastructure Is Open

  Here’s something three decades in construction have taught me: there will always be multiple vendors. And there’s never going to be one single vendor that does everything a project team needs. So, that makes the real question more interesting: how do you work with all the data across multiple platforms in a meaningful way? That [...]

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• Fact of the Week – 9/14/2026

  #Factoftheweek What if hospital employees no longer had to manually count inventory? That may sound like a small operational change, but Gartner says AI (artificial intelligence) and computer vision could soon make manual hospital inventory counting obsolete. The technology is moving beyond simply helping employees count supplies faster. Instead, autonomous supply rooms could continuously monitor [...]

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• Residential Construction at a Crossroads

  The residential construction market is sending a message, and it is one we should pay attention to: We cannot build the future of housing the same way we built the past. The latest numbers from the NAHB (National Assn. of Home Builders) make the challenge clear. New single-family home sales fell 10.5% in July to [...]

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• Success Stories: Smarter Ag: Protect the Peanuts!

  Technology continues to transform agriculture, as farmers and researchers look for new ways to protect crops, improve efficiency, and reduce losses. As a result, we are seeing the rise of sensors and other advanced technologies that can provide farmers with valuable information before problems become widespread. As one example, researchers at Virginia Tech are using [...]

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• The Top 5 EPC Trends in 2026

  Digitalization, Transparency, and Beyond Digitalization continues to dominate conversations across the EPC (engineering, procurement, and construction) industry. And for good reason. Projects are becoming more complex. Resources are stretched. Expectations keep rising. The conversation is no longer about why digitalization matters. It’s about how effectively EPCs can implement and scale digital initiatives to improve visibility, [...]

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