Construction Today, Vol 20 Issue 4 - July 2023 | Page 21

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Material waste is another area that could experience dramatic improvement
leaves them much less efficient and unable to appropriately plan in effective and sustainable ways .
Insufficient pre-construction planning technology serves as an unnecessary barrier to entry for these companies . With the inability to quickly and easily create estimates and schedules , they risk their ability to win a project or adhere to important specifications , such as estimated date of completion and materials needed . Even companies who are able to develop bids and schedules with their existing resources find themselves at risk of errors , detrimental financial losses , and the potential to lose the project entirely . Despite the massive influx of project availability , some companies are also turning down large opportunities simply because they can ’ t develop a plan quickly enough to determine if it is feasible for them . Due to the constraints associated with a competitive market and the comprehensive bid development processes , time is of the essence .
Demands for more efficient solutions
Despite the adoption of technologies like Building Information Modeling ( BIM ), augmented reality , and drones to revolutionize the actual construction of these projects , there is still an overwhelming lack of innovation employed in the planning stage . The resources used to develop the groundwork and schedules for
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