Kiewit is known as one of the country’s top construction firms. What is less well known is that they’ve diversified into software development.
InEight is the company’s wholly owned subsidiary and offers HD Suite a group of software programs covering the gamut of back office and field solutions for all sizes of companies in the building, infrastructure, mining, oil and gas, and utility industries. (For more on this, see subhead “By contractors for contractors” on page 82).
So why would a $9-billion, global construction company diversify from dirt and diesel into digits?
“We did an internal study and looked at the top 500 construction companies from 1965 and compared that list to the top 500 companies in 2015,” says Chris Dill, vice president of Kiewit Technology Group.
“What we found was startling – 450 of 500 who were on the list in 1965 were gone in 2015,” Dill says. “Not off the list…gone.” Dill made his remarks as the closing keynote speaker at this year’s Trimble Dimensions conference, and in a follow up interview with Equipment World.
Kiewit dug into the details and found three primary causes for the demise of 90 percent of the country’s top construction companies.
