Google glasses: Transforming Construction Industry

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An engineer, a contractor or an owner seeks to precisely control over every element in construction process. Each year huge amount of money(billions of dollars) is wasted in construction projects due to inefficiency and inaccuracy. Time period of any construction project is directly linked to it's total cost of construction, which is determined by the level of technologies we use in civil engineering construction. So, there is only way to reduce such redundant expenditure is use of advance technology, that helps communication to keep transparent between involved ones, eliminating unnecessary delays caused by failure of co-ordination between contractors.

One may wonder how GOOGLE GLASSES will help construction, similar to apps we use in our smartphones, we will be able to use apps built for it and with aid of apps integrated with GPS, GIS, ERDAS, CAD and other, imagine what and how fast a professional can extract information and conclusions out. Procore is ready to build such apps and mainly civil engineers are itching to get hands on first. Below is the answer that what each category of people can have benefits using Google glasses in construction industry:-

Owner:-

- will be able to view current status of project from anywhere in the world.

- will be able to prevent disputes with transparency and accountability.

- will be able to easily manage engineers, contractors and architects round the globe.

Construction Engineer and Architects:-

- will be able to pull and display construction plan at eyetips.

- will be able to know instantly about site parameters like length, difference in grades and others.

- will able to operate machines with greater accuracy in less time.

Contractors:-
- will be able to keep track of contracts(status).
- will be able to work quickly with less confusions and better accuracy.
- will be able to keep track with project schedule better.

(For more details go to Procore's website)