by GCO | Aug 5, 2021 | experts
Brief A webinar has explored alternative construction technologies that are gaining wider acceptance and has reviewed advantages they are offering the industry. Ella Mure recaps panelists’ explanations of modular buildings, panelization, mass timber framing and...
by GCO | Jul 29, 2021 | experts
Brief Autonomous equipment from original equipment manufacturers and retrofits of existing machines are gaining acceptance from contractors. Joe Bousquin explores what users want in this equipment: safety, efficiency and control. Insight Construction Dive’s...
by GCO | Jul 27, 2021 | experts
Brief Contractors that need to place mass concrete in hot weather should prioritize nighttime placements and add ice, cooling water or liquid nitrogen to the concrete mix, write Sarah De Carufel and Keya Shirali from Giatec Scientific. They note that the maximum...
by GCO | Jul 14, 2021 | experts
Brief Scientists at MIT have used Raman microspectroscopy to examine the chemical reactions that occur when water and ordinary portland cement mix in a real-world setting. “[T]his allowed us to observe all the changes almost continuously and improved the...
by GCO | Jul 14, 2021 | experts
Brief Robots play a vital mapping and imaging role in search and rescue missions, but they have size constraints that limit usefulness in unstructured rubble, Texas A&M University professor Robin Murphy says. In an interview, Murphy explores robots’...
by GCO | Jul 13, 2021 | experts
Brief In this interview, Hannah Office shares the design philosophy behind a cabin in upstate New York that was built by robots with 3D-printed concrete. The cabin also uses ash wood that would otherwise be unusable due to infestation by Emerald Ash Borers. ...
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