McAninch and GPS Technology

The June 19th, 2006 Business section of the Des Moines Register had a very interesting front page article on West Des Moines based McAninch construction and their adoption of GPS technology.

You can read the full article, but a couple of interesting observations.

1. “This year, trade magazine Engineering News-Record named him its award of excellence winner. Because of McAninch’s leadership, the magazine called Des Moines the “center of the digital earth-moving universe.”” Quite a high praise for the company. For me, the intersting note is in the sidebar where it mentions the size of the McAninch fleet, more than 400 Caterpillar machines that move more than 375,000 tons of earth per day.
2. “It’s just like television or anything else, it’s irreversible now,” said McAninch. A fine example of a real-world, day-to-day business application of geospatial technologies.