CONSTRUCTION TECHNOLOGY TRENDS


increase safety by keeping workers informed without requiring them to be on the jobsite. Extended reality, robotics and the


increasing automation of construction tasks also increase safety by keeping workers out of risky environ- ments; examples include the ability to accurately measure the depth of trenches and remotely monitoring excavation progress from afar.


California Constructor: Has the pandemic played a significant role accelerating the adoption of these trending technologies?


Scott Crozier:


COVID definitely drove the adoption of solutions that enable remote work, training, collaboration and automation over the past year. Many contractors were already considering digital transformation of work process, but the need to quickly and drastically decrease the number of people on the jobsite really accelerated the adoption of digital technology. We saw an immediate uptick in the


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number of people using our Trimble Connect cloud-based collaboration platform, with 1.2 million users joining the platform in March and April 2020 alone. We have seen increased adoption of augmented, virtual and mixed reality on construction jobsites, largely because these solutions make it easy to visualize projects, collaborate and resolve issues remotely. We’ve also seen increased adoption of connected construction workflows, which includes the use of constructible models and any technology that helps ease the flow of information between the field and the office, between multiple machines on a job site, or between various stakeholders throughout the construction continuum.


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We expect to see continued innovation in the areas of autonomy, extended reality and robotics in construction over the next 5-10


years, which will have a significant impact on the industry. These emerging technologies are making jobsites safer


and helping contractors work more efficiently. – Scott Crozier


In general, we saw a significant


increase in the adoption of technology that allowed contractors to keep projects moving forward while they were also limited in the number of people who could be working and gathering in person. We expect this momentum to continue as the industry continues to emerge from the pandemic, and as we continue to


face a labor shortage that is making it difficult to staff construction teams.


California Constructor: What’s on the horizon – what are some of the trends or technologies that you see having the biggest impact on the construction jobsite or office in say the next 5-10 years?


Scott Crozier: Tere are several areas of innovation that we expect to have a significant impact on the construction jobsite in the coming years. One is the proliferation of the connected construction workflow. We expect to see increasing use of fully constructible models and increased reliance on construction soſtware and cloud-based solutions to share information between construction stakeholders – from the office to the field to the machine and across the construction lifecycle.


We expect to see continued


innovation in the areas of autonomy, extended reality and robotics in construction over the next 5-10 years, which will have a significant impact on the industry. Tese emerging technologies are making jobsites safer and helping contractors work more efficiently and with greater accuracy, while also helping attract younger


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Mixed reality solutions like the Trimble XR10 with HoloLens 2 and Trimble Connect for HoloLens make it easy to visualize models and collaborate with stakeholders, which increases job site productivity and decreases costly errors and rework.


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