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Brimstone makes Ordinary Portland Cement, chemically and physically identical to conventionally manufactured cement, but without releasing CO2. At scale, Brimstone’s breakthrough will produce cement at or below market prices, solving the problems of both emissions and scarcity of raw materials, and without increasing cost or risk for customers. At scale, Brimstone’s process will be ...
The "mass timber" movement is a growing worldwide effort to build high-rises and other buildings out of wood composites rather than steel and concrete, for environmental reasons.
Picture this. You are on a job site building a new home. One room has three windows. For each window you have to flip through 40 pages of paper designs to get the installation instructions. One part of the critical information to install just one window is on page 3, another on page 8, more on page 11, and yet even more on page 23.
Architects and builders turn to ‘mass timber’—an engineered wood product similar in strength to concrete and steel—to build multistory buildings
If you’re still wrapping your head around the idea of self-driving cars, get ready for something that might seem even wilder: self-driving construction equipment exists, and it’s already out there digging away on job sites.
It’s been a little less than a year since we first noted Rugged Robotics. The Houston-based startup developed a robot that prints building layouts on the floor of construction sites, so workers know where — and where not — to build. The “layout Roomba,” as the company puts it. At the time, the company had raised $2.5 million, by way of a 2019 round.
Buildings are cities unto themselves, with costly, complex infrastructure. Designing and installing the wiring, ducts and other elements that serve as their streets, stoplights and subway lines typically amounts to 40 percent of a development’s total cost.
Cybersecurity experts caution against something far more foundational than ransomware attacks or private data thefts when it comes to threats in the construction sector: Their eyes are on the security of building materials.
Cybersecurity experts caution against something far more foundational than ransomware attacks or private data thefts when it comes to threats in the construction sector: Their eyes are on the security of building materials.
Canadian construction workforce intelligence vendor Bridgit recently added a new module it claims lets general contractors make better labor allocation and gain economic efficiency. The new offering, called Bench Cost Tracking, can “help general contractors tie a dollar value to people who are sitting on the bench or are underutilized, and make data-driven decisions about how to properly allocat...