For the last two years, Y Combinator alum PlanGrid has helped modernize the construction industry by moving blueprints to tablets. After originally launching on the iPad, the company will now offer ...

The construction industry has always been a late adopter. While other major U.S. industries have gone digital, builders have clung to paper. PlanGrid co-founder and CEO Tracy Young made a bet in 2011 ...

The acquisition of Plangrid will strengthen the connection between construction activity on the jobsite, and Autodesk project design tools. PlanGrid has been used on more than 1 million projects and ...

Any 5-year-old child can name the standard tools of the trade on a construction site—hammers, saws, drills, and the like. But now you can add the iPad to the list. Thanks to a recently released app, ...

As the labor shortage worsens and productivity stagnates in construction, tech companies and construction firms are finding ways to improve job-site performance and productivity. Construction tech ...

Cloud platform PlanGrid, widely used in field-office document sharing, will have more reach with its December purchase by Autodesk, says CEO Young. Tracy Young says she became a construction engineer ...