Take-Offs – Summer 2019 - Constructech

For decades, the necessary technology tools have been available to generate more and more data, as it relates to various processes in construction such as project management, scheduling, job costing, and more. The challenge is, with the influx of data, in the last few years, it has become more difficult to use that information well. "It hasn't been centrally stored and there hasn't been computing capability, even if the information was centrally stored," explains Dan Patterson, chief design officer, InEight, www.ineight.com, "That information is very loosely structured; it is not a uniform format. It is very difficult for computers to then mine that historical information."