by GCO | Aug 7, 2019 | News
The Loch Mary Reservoir holds enough water to fill about 715 Olympic-sized swimming pools. All that stands between that wall of water and Annette Rudolph’s Earlington, Kentucky neighborhood is a 95-year-old earthen dam, deteriorating and seeping water Rudolph, 70, has...
by GCO | Aug 7, 2019 | News
[The large concrete pots that form the foundation of Thomas Heatherwick’s Pier 55 park over the Hudson River are close to completion. These massive, funnel-shaped components are anchored to a number of individual concrete piers and create a striking appearance from...
by GCO | Aug 7, 2019 | News
The fact that BIM stands for ‘building information modelling’ gives a clue that it might not always be ideal for use on bridge projects. Constructing bridges differs in many obvious ways from buildings (as well as in some less obvious ones) and this has traditionally...
by GCO | Aug 6, 2019 | News
Danish 3D printer-maker Cobod is to ship the world’s largest building-printer to Saudi Arabia to take part in the kingdom’s plan to build 1.5 million homes over the next 10 years. The Copenhagen company’s Bod2 unit was bought by Saudi Elite for Construction &...
by GCO | Aug 6, 2019 | News
A new global map of freshwater hydrography may be the most accurate ever made—so precise scientists could use it to predict future flooding events around the world. The map, called MERIT Hydro, uses complex computer algorithms to determine the shape of millions of...
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