Across today’s infrastructure and construction sectors, digital integration is reshaping how projects are designed, managed, and delivered. This session highlights innovative applications that fuse BIM, GIS, and emerging geospatial technologies to enhance precision, automation, and decision-making throughout the construction lifecycle. Presenters will share real-world examples of smart systems and data-driven workflows—from AI-powered earthworks and intelligent blasting platforms to RFID-enabled asset tracking and virtual design coordination. Attendees will learn how technologies like UAV photogrammetry, GNSS, AI, and 3D visualization are bridging the gap between the digital and physical worlds, creating connected, efficient, and transparent construction environments.
The following presentations will be shared in this session:
From Lay-Down Yard Chaos to Digital Certainty: Fusing RFID + GIS + UAS for Real-Time Construction & Asset Intelligence
Presented by Jake Lahmann, Berntsen International
This session builds on strong audience interest sparked by a brief reference to RFID-enabled lay-down yards during Geo Week 2025. It presents a complete, field-tested workflow that integrates passive UHF RFID for item-level identification, enterprise GIS as the authoritative spatial and analytics environment, and autonomous UAS for rapid aerial inventory capture. Together, these technologies create an accurate, continuously updated digital twin of construction materials and installed assets, giving engineering and construction teams immediate insight into what they have, where it is, and how it aligns with upcoming installation needs.
Through a real-world case study, the presentation will follow the full lifecycle from initial tagging through project close-out, demonstrating how the same data model supports upstream OEM serialization and downstream O&M asset management. The session will also compare this integrated approach with barcode-only, GNSS-only, and vision-only alternatives, clarifying where each method performs best and how organizations can select the right mix for their workflows.
From Dirt to Data to Decisions: The AI Triple Play in Connected Earthworks
Presented by James Kenney, Stayos
The future of earthworks isn’t just about better data—it’s about connected intelligence. This presentation reveals how AI transforms raw geospatial earthworks data into actionable decisions while unifying systems, sensors, and workflows that traditionally operate in isolation. We’ll explore the journey from pixel to prediction and demonstrate how modern AI platforms unlock greater value by speaking the language of an entire operation. Attendees will see how open architectures enable drill rigs to talk to drones, blast designs to inform excavators, and fragmentation analysis to optimize crushers—all through intelligent data fusion.
Drawing on real-world examples from construction and mining operations, the session will illustrate how AI creates a common intelligence layer across diverse equipment and software, why closed systems limit operational insight, and how combining geospatial data with logs, telemetry, and IoT sensors dramatically elevates decision-making. It will highlight the key integration points that generate exponential gains and offer a practical roadmap for organizations looking to break down data silos and move toward fully intelligent earthworks operations where every system contributes to—and benefits from—shared operational intelligence.
