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services including PESCO
Switzerland, and Indian companies Larsen & Toubro (L&T), Tata Projects and IRB Infrastructure.
FOUNDING FATHER MyCrane’s founder and CEO is Andrei Geikalo. In his thirties, Geikalo has the entrepreneurial energy combined with experience that is key to success for any start-up.
“I studied cranes for six years at a technical university,” Geikalo says. “Then I joined Mammoet, the biggest and coolest company in the crane world. I was lucky to work there for 13 years, working my way up to the position of sales director for the CIS countries. This gave me a great perspective of both sides of the crane procurement process and I could see how much time was being wasted with this process. Solving this problem was the genesis of MyCrane.” Another key trait Geikalo shares
with successful entrepreneurs is his charisma, which has helped him assemble a tight, and growing, team of industry professionals. To date the MyCrane team includes Houston, USA-based Scott Wilkes as director of business development; Piet Kraaijeveld as chief operating officer;
MyCrane claims to be the fastest growing start-up in the crane industry
and Erik Altena as head of strategic development. “MyCrane is made by people
from the industry, together with people from the industry,” says Geikalo.
TIME IS MONEY So why has MyCrane’s offering attracted such attention from across the industry and how exactly does it work? “Thanks to our system we can
offer time savings of around 90 percent compared to traditional methods of procurement,” explains Geikalo. “Traditionally renting a crane can be a very long-winded process – not only sourcing which companies can meet your needs but then trying to compare all the quotes in differing formats. Once you enter the digital era, however, none of this is necessary as we have automated the whole process. “Our service starts with
talking plans! ChatGpT in construction
Artifi cial Intelligence is a fast-growing digital disruptor technology which is now being used in the construction industry. According to Miami, Florida, USA-based
start-up
Togal.AI, for the fi rst time ever people in construction can talk to their plans and their plans will talk back to them! This is possible, it says, thanks to artifi cial intelligence and ChatGPT via its OpenAI ChatGPT service. The service is designed to enhance
document management — so construction professionals can use semantic search functionality to fi nd relevant information across thousands of pages of plans,
contracts, specifi cation books, schedules and budgets in seconds. “We see great potential for ChatGPT in
the construction industry and we’re proud to be one of the fi rst to use it,” commented Patrick Murphy
Togal.AI founder and CEO. “It is incredible to see our teams literally talk to their plans and have their plans respond back with answers instantly. “With hundreds of pages in construction
plans, ChatGPT will help
Togal.AI users save time, improve accuracy and serve as a powerful tool to eliminate mundane tasks, so estimators can focus on higher value jobs.”
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