Congratulations to Vela customers named to the Building Design and Construction top 40 under 40 list!

Congratulations to Shawn Pressley of Hill International and Laura Handler of Tocci Building Corporation for their recent recognition in the Building Design and Construction (BD&C) Top 40 Under 40 list.   We’ve worked extensively with both and congratulate them on some well deserved recognition in the industry!

While they are both very different people (see the photos [...]

Surprise! It's the iPad

On Wednesday, behind Steve Jobs on the projection screen was a quote by The Wall Street Journal that read “the last time there was this much excitement about a tablet, it had some commandments written on it.”  So, I’m guessing that by now almost everyone has heard the news about Apple announcing their new mobile [...]

Pros and Cons of the New VDC Research Paper on Mobility in Construction

I was recently given a research paper by our great partners at Motion Computing (makers of Tablet PCs).   The VDC Research Paper called Mobile & Wireless Solutions In Construction: Driving Improved Decision Making, Speed And Scalability, provides an overview of the challenges and possibilities for mobile technologies in construction.  It’s really worth a read and [...]

Project Engineer Video Testimonial from Dallas Stadium

As mentioned in an earlier post, I was recently at Dallas Stadium to gather information and conduct field interviews for an upcoming case study with customer Manhattan Construction.  In the process, I captured some great jobsite video footage and testimonial. A big thanks to Andrew Reese, Project Engineer at Manhattan Construction for his contributions.

In this [...]