Construction tech

Technology that survives on site: what works with noise, without signal and with the crew working, and what gets sold but never reaches the field.

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Japanese woodblock print split in two halves; on the left, a chaotic whirlwind of paper notes and speech bubbles; on the right, the same notes filed in perfect order in the drawers of a tall wooden cabinet; at the seam between both worlds, a figure in a hard hat catches a note out of the air

WhatsApp on the construction site: from group chaos to structured data

WhatsApp is already the operating system of construction sites in Latin America. The problem is not the channel: it is that information dies there. What can be structured, and how.

by Carlos Pérez (Comandos)

Vintage colored-pencil illustration of an enormous ornate brass machine covered in gauges, levers and gears, clearly elaborate and clearly idle; beside it, a workman in a hard hat sits on a crate writing in a small worn pocket notebook, ignoring the machine entirely

Why construction software fails in the field, and what actually works

Most construction software rollouts fail for the same reason, and it is not missing features. What actually breaks, and what field crews really adopt.

by Felipe Arancibia

Vintage editorial engraving of a mechanical automaton in a hard hat holding a plumb bob against a wall with perfect precision; its lower half is drawn solid and detailed in brass clockwork, while its upper half gradually dissolves into loose hatching and smoke fading into the sky

AI in construction: what works on site today, and what is still smoke

An honest assessment of artificial intelligence applied to construction: what is mature, what is halfway there, and what gets sold but does not work.

by Felipe Arancibia

Japanese woodblock print of a remote construction site on a bare plateau at dusk, with a half-built concrete frame and a single crane; a carrier pigeon takes flight from the top of the structure with a small rolled paper tied to its leg, against a sky of decorative clouds

Digitising a site with no connectivity: what works offline and what does not

Poor signal is the first objection on any site. Which architectures hold up without connectivity, which do not, and how to test that before you buy.

by Felipe Arancibia

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