Long before the COVID-19 pandemic, the construction industry was “going global” using available technology and cloud-based data storage and file sharing on all phases of projects. For example, a project owner might hire a London-based architect to design a transportation hub in the United States. The London-based architect might delegate its building information modeling work to a company in New Zealand. Cloud and internet-based platforms make all this possible, enabling the general contractor or construction manager to offer as part of its services one-stop paperless project management, stored on the cloud and password protected. Cloud and internet-based platform providers tout their products’ ability to reduce overhead costs by storing documents in a central location, limiting the hard copies of documents that kept and stored on site at project trailers, and reducing the number of local information technology professionals to staff a project.
New Cloud Infrastructure For Construction Firms
Today, as the global economy enters a “new normal,” the construction industry’s reliance on remote access has accelerated. In June 2020, Procore Technologies, a construction…
