If necessity is the mother of invention, frustration must be its father. For civil engineer Javier Devesa, a highway construction project manager in Washington, D.C., his frustrations with manually planning and filing lane closure requests with the DOT have inspired him to invent a better way.
The result is Nodum, a software service launched Aug. 12 that is designed to help general contractors optimize lane closures—streamlining planning and minimizing duration.
