by GCO | Nov 13, 2020 | News
Brief A Passive House in Kansas City, Mo., features sandwich-panel-style walls with ten inches of precast concrete surrounding a six-inch layer of insulation for maximum energy savings. The precast panels were manufactured in-house by general contractor Crossland...
by GCO | Nov 12, 2020 | News
Brief Europe’s tallest skyscraper, Lakhta Center in St. Petersburg, Russia, has earned this year’s Skyscraper Award from Emporis. The new Gazprom headquarters’ facade features an energy efficient double skin and a design that rotates almost 90...
by GCO | Nov 12, 2020 | leadership & management
Brief A messy desk can hamper your productivity, writes Naphtali Hoff, who recommends purging old documents, creating a new organizing system and putting things away at the end of the day. “Our external order creates internal sense of orderliness and allows us...
by GCO | Nov 12, 2020 | experts
Brief Suffolk Construction has been using Microsoft Teams to keep its 2,500 employees connected in the office and on work sites. The company uses the platform to collect and monitor screening information related to the coronavirus, to interact with architects...
by GCO | Nov 11, 2020 | News
Brief Sensors and GPS are among reasons robotic heavy equipment is being used more widely in construction, mining and agriculture. Bricklaying, bulldozing, loading and painting are among tasks robots can do, ABI Research analyst Rian Whitton says. Insight...
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