I’m looking forward to attending my first CONEXPO-CON/AGG show next month along with the Grading & Excavation Contractor team. As my colleague Arturo Santiago described in his blog last week, the Tech Experience—focused on modern mobility, sustainability, and smart cities—is something I don’t want to miss. I also learned about a new site work estimating tool that will be showcased at CONEXPO 2020.
The new tool, part of the TraceAir platform, will assist grading contractors in running faster, more accurate takeoffs and will also enable them to place bids on more jobs as well as sending the bids they won directly to the field teams to execute. It has a field-friendly interface created to help with the daily decision-making process for foremen and superintendents.
One of 2,800 exhibitors at the CONEXPO 2020 show, TraceAir Technologies is a construction management software that is powered by both drone data and AI which assists customers in finishing projects on a schedule and within their budget. TraceAir gives field managers control over and access to data analytics.
According to Dmitry Korolev, the CEO at TraceAir, “We are excited to join CONEXPO 2020 for the first time to announce the upcoming release of a Site Work Estimating Tool. Civil & remedial quantities, streets & pads OX, retaining walls, and trenches—this tool is a great step forward for us and for our clients who will be able to bid more jobs in less time by saving hours on running takeoffs. And we couldn't have imagined a better event to showcase the benefit of the tool to its potential users.”
TraceAir welcomes all CONEXPO 2020 visitors at booth #B92719 to be the first to see the Site Work Estimating Tool demo.
I’m also eagerly anticipating the several educational sessions at CONEXPO this year, including “9 Questions to Ask Before Buying GPS,” which will be held on Friday, March 13, from 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. Mike Cook, Chairman of the Board for Land Improvement Contractors of America, says: “There is so much potential with the data. You can actually collect too much data and not know what to do with it. Mostly, you want to get that data into an AutoCad to draw your lines or give you a profile of what you did. There is a lot of construction-specific software now. Are you getting the right data that you can import into something that is on the market now?”
Here are the 9 questions to ask before you buy GPS:
- Is there satellite reconfiguration?
- Which constellation is the technology using
- Can the software use multiple data types?
- What is your operating range?
- How new is the model?
- What training is needed?
- Who do you call when things go bad?
- Parts availability? Know where you can purchase replacement parts and how long it takes to receive replace parts once ordered.
- Can the GPS technology import engineering drawings?
