by GCO | Sep 13, 2022 | News
Brief Engineers at the University of Houston have put forward a new solution to keep planes ice-free, developing an ice-shedding surface coating they say is 100 times stronger than other state-of-the-art materials. Insight Keeping airplane wings ice-free is...
by GCO | Sep 9, 2022 | News
Brief Advanced Construction Robotics has developed technology to tie rebar, and now nine of its TyBOTS are working on projects, tying 1,100 intersections an hour — equivalent to what up to six workers can do. Dusty Robotics is also helping contractors like DPR...
by GCO | Sep 9, 2022 | experts
Brief It would behoove developers and their contractors to include resilience as a vital risk-mitigation measure, as the threats posed by climate change accelerate and the value of construction disputes in North America soars, write Jessica Mederson of law firm...
by GCO | Sep 8, 2022 | News
Brief Denmark-based civil engineering monitoring specialist Worldsensing hopes to eliminates the hazard and expense of installing monitors in tunnels by embedding sensors in concrete segments before installation by a tunnel boring machine. The sensors are placed in a...
by GCO | Sep 8, 2022 | News
Brief McCarthy Building Cos. placed liquid-nitrogen-cooled concrete as part of a linear accelerator vault at the three-floor, 85,000-square-foot Northeast Texas Cancer and Research Institute in Tyler, Texas. The linear accelerators required 3,065 cubic yards of...
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