DIGITAL TOOLS, ANALOG CHALLENGES
WHEN DIGITALISATION HITS A ROADBLOCK Digitalisation on-site isn’t some distant trend. It’s happening now. Yet while robots map the terrain, AI crunches the numbers, and dashboards could overflow with live data, many construction sites still operate the old way. Why is that? The obvious culprit? People. “They just don’t want to!” you hear whenever a digital […]
Search less, achieve more
Finders fee We all know the drill: you’re looking for a file. THE file. Maybe it’s the photo from last month documenting vandalism damage at the well. Or the inspection report that proves the work is complete. You dig like a digital mole through emails, WhatsApp threads, and outdated plans. Welcome to everyday chaos, where […]
The end of the paper trail
Digitalization makes big promises: less paperwork, less stress, more efficiency. But what about those processes that are still stuck in the Stone Age? Machines that don’t produce digital output? Handwritten records that must be typed up or scanned, only to sit untouched in some dusty PDF folder?
Dropping anchor at the “Stadtstraße”
Ship ahoy! It doesn’t always have to be the subway, Vienna has a lot more to offer. This time we drop anchor in the city street.
Revolutionary stress control elements: Innovation made easy
Tunnel construction work is literally a backbreaking job. Especially when it comes to installing stress control elements (weighing 80 kilograms each) overhead. When Manuel Entfellner saw how the workers in the tunnel struggle with this, he decided to do something about it. We spoke with the Implenia site manager about his innovative stress control elements, […]
CROW: a watchful eye on water levels
Winter water is coming. In our industry, this is usually not a reason to be happy, but when it comes to diaphragm walls, water (in combination with bentonite) is absolutely necessary. To ensure that there is always enough fluid inside the diaphragm wall to stabilize it, it needs a guard who sounds the alarm when […]
AVANT: The big build
We have had good experiences with kitchen comparisons in the past, so today we again approach a topic of foundation engineering from the edible side: namely a research project called AVANT, which deals with the use of artificial intelligence in injection processes.
recordIT: A construction site in pictures
A user interface that clearly displays a construction site in all its facets? Fast documentation, comprehensible reports and clean formatting? Sounds like eguana SCALES – but it’s not. The software of recordIT is the visual counterpart to our data management tool and enables a construction site to be displayed in visual form. The range is […]
Indiana Jones and the extremely practical university research
Micropiles and giant excavators, Matthias J. Rebhan’s work includes everything from small devices to large machines. University research is conducted in dusty libraries, the scientists in their ivory towers are paler than Count Dracula from all the indoor work? Not at the Institute for Soil Mechanics, Foundation Engineering and Computational Geotechnics (IBG for short) at […]
How to build a subway
No, we are not talking about the sandwich. Sorry. In our previous blog post, we approached the subway from a historical perspective, today we approach from above and dig deep underground to find out how subway tunnels and stations can be built. ***** There are different ways to build a subway. If you do a […]