continues to advance its technology strategy this year amidst what is clearly growing awakening in the broader construction sector to the advantages of embracing tech.Chaudhry said EllisDon works to see where new business-changing opportunities may lie and ensure it is a leader in the sector’s growing innovation and startup ecosystem.
The Technology Accelerator program was launched last May and EllisDon received over 100 applications from around the world. Head office in Mississauga did a Dragons’ Den-style series of interviews with eight or so of the finalists and in September, The Link, Sitelink and Provision were announced as winners.
“What’s exciting about that is it’s returning time that otherwise we would not be able to recover,” said Chaudhry of The Link. “You have sometimes a project manager or a project co-ordinator/field engineer equivalent going through the specifications, a PDF, sometimes a piece of paper, doing Control F trying to find key words, summarize it, create a table, and sometimes create a list of submittals, summary and analytics in a matrix to be able to know what is in that fat document.