Technology Gains A Foothold In Development

The construction industry has been slow to embrace technology. Now architects, urban designers and developers are making the transition in leaps and bounds.

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November 21, 2000, 7:00 AM PST

By Chris Steins @planetizen

"Construction company officials are among the first to admit that their industry had been slow to embrace technology. "It's been a dinosaur," according to Joseph Maguire, a vice president of Bovis Lend Lease in New York. But as if making up for lost time, the industry, which the Commerce Department estimates at more than $400 billion, has bestirred itself in recent years to embrace technology with an alacrity that, if it does not yet approach warp speed, at least takes construction out of the Mesozoic Era.

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