Forbes, 2/25/2021
“There is no getting 'back to normal,' experts say. The sooner we accept that, the better,” read a September headline from CNN’s Nick Paton Walsh. Another from USA Today’s Joel Shannon echoed the above sentiment with the title, “When will things go back to normal? Experts say that's the wrong question amid COVID-19.” Additional articles address the same idea. A line has been crossed, and we will not be going back.
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Egnyte, 2/11/2021
Egnyte, the leader in cloud content collaboration and governance, today announced the release of Egnyte for Construction and Engineering, a new platform to help construction and engineering (C&E) firms increase project efficiencies while also enabling a variety of cloud-first processes and experiences for clients, partners and employees.
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Construction Safety & Health Conference, January 13-15, 2021, Virtual
Smartvid.io is sponsoring AGC's 2021 Construction Safety & Health Virtual Conference on January 13-15, 2021. Check out our Industry Briefing on January 14th at 12:15 PM: How Predictive Based Safety is Helping Contractors. Smartvid.io has built a predictive model that analyzes the data you’re already collecting and identifies sites that are at the greatest risk and provides safety managers with recommendations for lowering that risk. This industry briefing will show you how powerful Predictive Based Safety (PBS) is, what to look for in a predictive model and the benefits of using a predictive safety model.
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Builtworlds, 12/15/2020
News that AI-powered safety, quality, and productivity platform, Smartvid.io has just closed a $5 million round led by Sony Innovation Fund and AI Capital Group, adds further evidence to three trends we have been watching and discussing for the past few years at BuiltWorlds. These trends have profound implications for the next leg of technology development and commercialization within the construction industry, and they point, without question, to a period of much more profound transformation than the industry has experienced in the past decade. If the past decade was about moving to the cloud and mobile devices as we digitize workflows that pretty much mirror how the industry has historically approached business, the next wave of bigger investment in more sophisticated technology speaks to more fundamental and transformative changes to how the business is approached.
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ENR, 12/16/2020
When the COVID-19 pandemic first spread across the U.S. earlier this year, construction sites saw a raft of new safety procedures to ensure essential work could continue without casually spreading the virus. Construction’s safety culture adapted to include mandatory face masks, social distancing and more glove wearing for workers on site.
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Construction Dive, 12/9/20
Construction remained essential throughout most of the country at the outset of the coronavirus pandemic, which left contractors in need of ways to protect workers and keep jobsites clean and safe — not just from the usual dangerous work, but from infection. With a bevy of new state and local requirements and federal guidelines came an array of tech innovations promising to help contractors keep their workers healthy.
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Construction Best Practices, 12/9/20
Although the spread of coronavirus is at the top of everyone’s mind, reducing the number of job site accidents still remains a high priority. AI-powered construction safety platform Smartvid.io proved this recently when it announced that it had earned a $5 million round of new funding from Sony Innovation Fund (SIF) and IA Capital Group.
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Construction Dive, 12/9/20
Investors for Smartvid.io’s newest round of funding included Sony Innovation Fund and IA Capital Group, joined by prior investors Building Ventures, Companyon Ventures and Converge, among others.
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Cision PR Newswire, 12/9/20
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Dec. 9, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Smartvid.io, an AI-powered construction safety platform, today announced a $5 million round of new funding from Sony Innovation Fund (SIF) and IA Capital Group. Joining the round were prior investors, Building Ventures, Companyon Ventures and Converge, among others. This new round brings the total amount of funding that Smartvid.io has raised to $21 million.
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Constructech, 11/12/2020
In June, we noted the NEXT Coalition’s Construction Safety Challenge and explained how an industry group focused on infrastructure and construction was challenging the industry to come up with new and innovative ideas for meeting the COVID-19’s impact on jobsites across the country. The original companies forming the NEXT Coalition were Black & Veatch, DPR Construction, Haskell, and McCarthy Building Companies. They were soon joined by Swinerton and Truebeck Construction.
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