Construction jobs increase for most of U.S.
Connecticut, Illinois, Louisiana, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, and Tennessee were the only states to lose construction jobs. Colorado did not grow.
Forty-one states and the District of Columbia added construction jobs between October 2018 and October 2019, while construction employment increased in 28 states from September to October, according to an analysis of Labor Department data by the Associated General Contractors of America.
Cute / terrifying robot dog working on job sites
Boston Dynamics (creator of Terminator-like robots) and HoloBuilder have teamed up to create a robot dog that can do repetitive site survey work.
According to Fast Company, Holobuilder lets the robot walk through construction sites, collecting 360-degree images that let engineers track the progress on the job site.
HoloBuilder and construction firm Hensel Phelps ran multi-week pilot tests in the spring and fall in which Spot briefly took over the painstaking site surveying job that human field engineers normally do with handheld 360-degree cameras and HoloBuilder’s Reality Capture Platform software.
