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The construction industry is infamous for delayed payments and payment-related disputes. The issues could be significantly reduced by taking advantage of blockchain-based smart contracts. It is a system that not only saves cost and time but also increases transparency ...
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Can Blockchain Revolutionize the Construction Sector? [PDF]
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The construction industry has generally tended to resist digital transformation that other industrial and business sectors have witnessed in recent years, and the adoption of Blockchain technology can potentially address several problems and bring out a slew of benefits ...
10 Ways Technology can help Construction Fight COVID-19 [PDF]
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The construction sector is one of the worst-hit sectors by COVID-19. To begin with, contractors had to shut down sites to protect their workers. On sites that are still running, contractors have had to take extra precautions, including social ...
What is Digital Elevation Model? [PDF]
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A digital elevation model (DEM) is a 3-dimensional illustration of a surface, typically a terrain region. It’s a grid-based structure having array numbers oriented to depict the terrain attributes such as slopes or aspect values. In simple terms, it ...
8 Reasons You Need Building Information Modeling (BIM) [PDF]
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With the increasing complexities in construction projects, the room for errors and miscommunication has significantly increased. The solution to the problems requires the players to shift their inclination towards digitalization by adopting computer-aided design and building information modeling (BIM) ...
How IoT can help the Construction Sector? [PDF]
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The ‘Internet of Things’ (IoT) is an emerging technology that enables interaction of uniquely identifiable computing devices that can be embedded with other interfaces like machines and humans, linked via wired and wireless networks, to capture contextual data from ...
Application of Lasers in Highway Engineering [PDF]
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In this era of technology, the use of lasers has a very vast application in highway engineering. It is used for various purposes like road profiling, pavement surface deflection, bridge deflection, speed checkers, etc. These techniques have eased human ...
8 Software every Civil Engineer Should know
It doesn’t matter how hard the construction industry tries to cling on to the traditional methods for execution, the increasing complexities and intricacies of construction sites are going to bend it down eventually unless the industry makes itself adept ...