Features Construction

It’s not the type of theft that evokes images of a high-speed chase with screeching sirens and flashing lights. But picture, if you will, someone attempting to steal something like a 6,000-pound skidsteer, typically used for excavation. It’s hard to imagine these large pieces of construction machinery being pilfered off the job site under the […]

For more than 40 years, SACDE—formerly the Argentine Society for Construction and Strategic Development—has been at the forefront of Argentina’s strategic development efforts. As one of the nation’s largest construction and project development firms, the company operates across the energy spectrum, from power generation, to oil and gas, and transportation and infrastructure sectors. What SACDE […]

Today, talk of the cloud saturates just about every IT conversation. But in 2008? Not so much. Back then, most companies were still getting familiar with a concept that wouldn’t take root for another five years, let alone be adopted. Not so for The Garland Company, which in that year was already migrating its infrastructure […]

Born in a refugee camp in war-torn Thailand, Ubon Boutsomsi says the first problem he had to solve was staying alive. Named after the city in which he was born without a birth certificate, was Boutsomsi’s starting point. But with a knack for figuring things out, he became a technology specialist with an uncanny ability […]

Inside the Detroit facility of integrated building systems provider Limbach, a project engineer pulls a headset over his eyes. Within seconds, he’s standing inside a 3-D rendering of a giant warehouse about to be built by one of the company’s customers. After toying with a few unresolved design ideas—an HVAC system here, a water treatment […]

It’s where the next version of the Oracle Database will be developed, and a popular destination Jalisco, Mexico, has proven to be for a workforce that’s ballooned from five in 2012 to around 1,000. Northwest of Mexico City and not too far from the Pacific Coast, the capital city of Guadalajara has taken on somewhat […]

It’s odd, muses Chris Hartley, how the housing industry seems a stride or more behind the rest of the business world when it comes to harnessing technology. A home, after all, is most everyone’s biggest investment. Smart would be the homebuilder who uses info-tech to attract and service buyers, especially those of a new generation. […]

To the untrained eye, the twin steel towers reaching high above the tree line just south of I-565 in Huntsville, Alabama, could be just about anything: the skeleton of an office high-rise, perhaps, or a state-of-the-art energy facility. But it’s in the precision of its construction that the nature of this 221-foot-tall behemoth becomes apparent. […]

Having a longtime rapport with a headhunter whom he had relied upon for info-tech talent, David Rettig fielded a call from him in 2016, only to find that it was his own expertise being recruited. Then, the IT director of The Institute for Study Abroad at Butler University in Indianapolis, Rettig was seen as a […]