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ENR FutureTech: Demand More From Your Data
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The presenters at ENR’s annual FutureTech conference in San Francisco May 30-June 1, cautioned the sold-out audience of engineers, construction professionals, venture capitalists and technologists that the construction industry continues to be plagued by inefficiency and a general lack of adoption of new technologies, although big strides are being made in sharing and managing data.

However, an upbeat air filled the hall as many touted three key improvements in delivering a connected built environment; ­cloud computing, mobile phones shifting computing access and low-cost chips and sensors enabling IoT.

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Our first dispatch from the FutureTech conference in San Francisco brought a common plea from venture capitalists, consultants and engineering and construction professionals.


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