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At the same time that these factors pressure construction industry players to adopt new technologies, recent years have seen a flood of new technology products, especially software. Everything from new ways to create, share, and use Building Information Models (BIM), to a flurry of project management solutions, to drones, voice‐operated software, and much more has suddenly become available. Along the way, the venture capital community and other investors have “discovered” construction technology, leading to more and more options.

While this flood has led to some companies feeling like it's too much too soon, construction companies have created teams focused on successfully navigating all the options, adopting these new technologies and making them work for their teams in the field and back in the office.

And with all of these folks pushing to create new solutions, some genuinely useful things are coming to market. It is no exaggeration to say that products like Procore have transformed how work gets managed and handled on the jobsite. Workflow and jobsite capture tools like Holobuilder change the level of awareness companies have of their jobs across space and time in a truly meaningful way.

The past few years have seen an evolution from clunky, disconnected point solutions to more networked approaches where many software solutions do in fact work together. However, truly connecting every software product together remains a difficult problem in construction, with many companies either hacking together solutions, or suffering through the painful double and triple data entry issues that have plagued the industry for years.

All of these solutions are coming at the construction industry because they, or something like them, are already being used in other industries – construction has, for valid reasons, been a slower adopter of technology for most of its recent history. The benefit of being second – or let's face it, more like a distant fifth – to the technology party behind other industries is that construction firms and workers are able to learn from decades of thinking about digital transformation and cherry pick the best ideas.

This book will help you do that.