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September 5th, 2007
Worldwide Challenges Facing the Construction Industry

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BETWEEN THE POLES BLOG: Worldwide Challenges Facing the Construction Industry
There are some very serious challenges facing the construction industry that are motivating new approaches to how we design, build, operate, and maintain buildings and infrastructure.  While these new technologies are designed to address challenges in the construction industry, I think that they are going to profoundly affect other sectors such as operations and maintenance, emergency planning, first response and urban planning.  In this first blog on this subject I am only going to outline what some of the major challenges are. 
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