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How Data can Help You Keep Your Best Employees
Brief The pandemic has traumatized much of the workforce, causing many people to seek other jobs, writes John Borland, CEO of data analytics firm Perceptyx, who offers a four-step plan to implement an employee listening program to uncover and address pain points to...
How Built Spaces can Henefit From Digital Engineering
Brief Replacing manual with digital processes is one way that engineers can ensure that the world's built spaces use energy as efficiently as possible, writes Carl Coken, vice president of Atrius Engineering, Acuity Brands. This can involve the placement of sensors...
A Look at How FRP Can Enhance Concrete Columns
BRief Mo Ehsani, president of QuakeWrap, outlines how fiber-reinforced polymers can enhance the axial and flexural capacity of concrete columns. Ehsani offers a look at the history of FRP as a concrete strengthener as well as design examples. Insight An...
The Past, Present and Future of 3D Printing
Brief Alexander Curth, a doctoral student at MIT, looks at the past, present and future of 3D-printed concrete, starting in 1939 with William Urschel's first 3D-printed building in Valparaiso, Ind. Curth offers a detailed look at the promise and advantages of 3D...
Are You the One Preventing Your Team’s Success?
Brief Managers who withhold information, schedule unnecessary meetings and give unclear guidance may be preventing their teams from succeeding, writes David Dye. "The challenge for most managers is that they think they've communicated what success looks like, but...
Are Floating Cities the Solution to Rising Seas?
Brief The Maldives recently greenlit the construction of a floating community and a similar development off the coast of South Korea by Bjarke Ingels Group is underway. Are the efforts a realistic bulwark against climate change or merely a sci-fi distraction? ...
Robotic System Seals Road Cracks
Only two workers are needed to operate the CrackPro Robotic Maintenance Vehicle that robotically seals road cracks. The truck-mounted system developed by SealMaster and Pioneer Industrial Systems uses artificial intelligence and high-resolution cameras and lasers to...
3D printing can Help the Construction Industry Become Carbon-Neutral. Here’s how
Brief Progress will require collaboration between regulators and industry leaders, who should actively engage to ensure numerous standards are updated regarding the use of alternative construction materials. Insight 3D printing is an industry that is already...
Modular: Home Building to Become More Popular
Brief THE homes we live in will increasingly be constructed off-site as investors and developers seek to balance spiralling costs with environmental concerns, it is predicted. Insight Poole-based property finance specialist MSP Capital foresees a growing role...