A few companies in San Francisco have noticed that innovation and productivity in the construction industry has stagnated.
Whereas the manufacturing has benefitted from constant, incremental gains and
the adoption of new innovative technologies, construction suffers from chronic
symptoms of unproductivity like shortages of skilled labor, a lack of new workers and an aging workforce.
The Golden Gate Bridge Pavilion. Project Frog transformed deploying Frogs
(Flexible Response to Ongoing Growth) into a sophisticated yet straightforward process—designing, delivering, and assembling Frogs for retail environments, community centers, medical office buildings, data centers and National Park visitor centers. (Image courtesy of Project Frog.)
America accounts for 15 percent of the global construction industry, which,
incidentally, produces half of America’s trash.
Building Information Modeling (BIM) applications like Revit began the process of optimizing the collaborative efforts of architects and engineers, but innovative companies like Project Frog are creating new tools for parts of the AEC market that employ a more
“siloed” style of collaboration.
Project Frog is now allied with engineering and design software giant Autodesk
after an investment from their Forge Fund. San Francisco-based Project Frog
creates software and prefabricated building platforms. After a decade of Project
Frog leveraging cloud software and growing a network of distributed…