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Dexter + Chaney
CONSTRUCTION TECHNOLOGY NEWS
At AGC's 97th Annual Convention in March, the AGC IT Steering Committee will hold three presentations on the following topics: 1) 3D Printing in the Construction Industry, 2) Update on UAVs (Drones) and Best Practices to Know, and 3) Use Cases for BIM and Safety on Project Sites. Be sure to catch these exciting and informative sessions!
 
ASSOCIATION NEWS
If you work in construction technology and would like to contribute content to an upcoming issue of Tech Brief, please contact Jeanie Clapp at jclapp@naylor.com today and you could be featured in an upcoming article.
 
TRENDS IN TECHNOLOGY
 
   
Flying cars may not be the norm these days, as predicted in "Back to the Future II," when Doc Brown and Marty McFly traveled 30 years into the future and landed on Oct. 21, 2015, but there are many technological inventions in play now than there were in 1985.
 
 
   
Seeking an extremely secure electronic plan room that could function without Internet connectivity, Balfour Beatty Construction turned to Egnyte while reconstructing and updating more than 2 million square feet in the terminals at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.
 
TECHNOLOGY TIDBITS
Starting in the very near future, Chrome's getting Brotli, a new page compression algorithm that decreases load times. Brotli, which was revealed in September as a replacement for Chrome's outgoing Zopfli algorithm, uses a more efficient data format to improve the compression of scripts by up to 26 percent.
 
Have an older generation iPhone? The new iOS 9.2.1 update can potentially make your experience easier, according to a new series of YouTube videos featuring side-by-side comparisons with devices running iOS 8.4.1. Although installing 9.2.1 still causes an iPhone 4S or 5 to boot slower, once in action the software can load apps as fast or faster than 8.4.1 in many circumstances, according to iAppleBytes.
 
Procore
CMiC
INTEROPERABILITY UPDATE
 
   
The Construction Open Standards Alliance (COSA) is a community of construction industry professionals who support open integration standards in construction software. Join the effort today.
 
UPCOMING EVENTS
Grab Your Hat and Boots ...

And join your fellow construction industry professionals at the 97th Annual AGC Convention, March 9-11, 2016, at the Grand Hyatt San Antonio.

As our premier event each year, the AGC Annual Convention and Technology & Construction Solutions Expo is the ideal opportunity to see everything AGC can do for you and your business.  Join us for more than 15 education breakouts, terrific networking events and industry leading speakers, all in a perfect location for business, culture, family and fun ... San Antonio. Register here.
 
 
   
Mark your calendars for the 2016 AGC IT Forum Conference, scheduled for Aug 4-5, 2016, in downtown Chicago, Illinois. Visit http://meetings.agc.org/itforum/ to stay abreast of plans as they develop.
 
 

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