Construction Firms Looking for Technology Ideas for Safety, Pandemics

A coalition of major U.S. construction companies is crowd-sourcing ways to bring technology to the table to promote safety and better prepare the industry for pandemics. “The Construction Safety Challenge is another example of organizations turning to crowdsourcing as the best way to generate reliable and vetted solutions for mitigating the impact of this pandemic,” Matt Greeley, CEO of Brightidea, an innovation management firm, said in a news release. Four infrastructure and commercial construction firms are working with Brightidea. They have launched a web portal and Constructi...