Business
A Korean research team has developed a BIM-based digital collaboration platform that allows construction owners and engineers to collaborate with each other on digital design tasks.
Nov 27, 2023
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Software
Designing buildings with solar cleverly incorporated into the design has just become easier, thanks to software developed at RMIT University.
Oct 9, 2023
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Engineering
Temperatures around the world are soaring. Both California's Death Valley and China's Xinjiang region have seen temperatures climb above the 50℃ mark. A blistering heat wave is also sweeping across the Mediterranean, causing ...
Jul 21, 2023
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Engineering
Buildings in the U.S. are generally designed to withstand the usual suspects: rain, wind, snow and the occasional earthquake. Abnormal events such as gas explosions, vehicle impacts or uncontrolled building fires are not ...
Jun 5, 2023
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Engineering
Almost 40% of global CO2 emissions are caused by the construction and building sector. When energy and building materials production are factored in, it accounts for about 28% in Germany. The German government's goal is to ...
Apr 5, 2023
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Engineering
Being able to withstand hurricane-force winds is the key to a long life for many buildings on the Eastern Seaboard and Gulf Coast of the U.S. Determining the right level of winds to design for is tricky business, but support ...
Mar 29, 2023
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Engineering
A striking trend in modern architecture, freeform structures are one-of-a-kind buildings of unconventional shapes: museums, stadiums, luxury hotels, exhibition pavilions, or universities, for that matter—you need not look ...
Mar 15, 2023
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Engineering
James Cook University experts who surveyed the wreckage left after a devastating 2021 cyclone say building standards are inadequate and need to be upgraded, even in areas not thought of as being at high risk.
Jan 20, 2023
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Robotics
Drones are already shaping the face of our cities—used for building planning, heritage, construction and safety enhancement. But, as studies by the UK's Department of Transport have found, swathes of the public have a limited ...
Dec 2, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Lina Ghotmeh has pegged her career on sustainable construction.
Nov 25, 2022
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