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Digital Journal
Construction companies can unlock billions in value throughout the next ten years by turning more readily to digital technologies, according to a new report from Accenture.
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Autodesk
Carbon fiber has become increasingly popular as a stronger and more flexible material for constructing buildings in the developed world. Learn why industry experts prefer it as a lighter and more effective alternative to steel.
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Factor Tech
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Engineering
Engineering.com speaks to Doxel CEO Saurabh Ladha about his startup’s deep learning and machine vision technology for construction.
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YouTube - VisualPolitik EN
House prices are rising in almost every country. While the general trend in the rest of the industries is to lower the prices for the goods (food, clothing o...
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Futurism
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New Atlas
Graphene, the "wonder material" composed of a one-atom-thick sheet of linked carbon atoms, is the world's strongest manmade material. Now, scientists have used it to create a new type of concrete that is much stronger, water-resistant and eco-friendly than what we're used to.
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Business Insider
According to developer Fastbrick Robotics, the Hadrian X robot can help build a small house by laying 1,000 bricks an hour. The company said its technology can improve safety, speed, and accuracy in home construction.
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Verdict
Construction has remained more or less the same for thousands of years, but now brick-laying robots may finally be transforming the building industry. Find out how they can already outperform even the best human bricklayer
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MIT Technology Review
Construction workers are killed on the job five times more often than other laborers. Now a new kind of construction worker—a data scientist—aims to use artificial intelligence to predict the likelihood of injury and intervene. Suffolk, a Boston-based general contractor with annual sales of $3 billion, is developing an algorithm that analyzes photos from its…
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Autodesk
Concrete is an imperfect building material—staining, cracking, even collapsing under its own weight. New flexible, reactive materials promise to transform smart construction.
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Buildzoom
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The Verge
The HRP-5P humanoid robot, created by Japan’s Advanced Industrial Science and Technology institute, can do simple construction tasks like install drywall.
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BBC
As construction workforces age, we are likely to turn to robots to build the cities of the future.
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YouTube - The B1M
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ZDnet
The way humans build things, fundamental to life on this planet, is undergoing its first major change since the Steam Age.
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Deloitte
Technology isn't the only, or even main, source of disruption. Increasingly, all it takes is the realization that social and economic factors enable old technologies to be used in new ways.
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The Science Times
Most residential buildings are built with traditional reinforced concrete which are limited to rise up to 27 floors only.
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Scientific American
With 400,000 people around the world entering the middle class daily, old methods of creating housing won’t cut it
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Forbes
Startups are racing to fix the construction productivity problem. Most of the money went towards modular housing companies or software promising to optimize current processes. Yet neither of these buckets addresses the labor shortage head-on. Many startups claim robots might address the shortage.
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ArchDaily
Michael Perry of Boston Dynamics discusses the release of Spot 1.1, and how their company is using robotics to revolutionize the construction indusctry.
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New Atlas
Given how deadly and destructive lightning can be, it would certainly be good to know in advance where and when it was going to strike. A new artificial intelligence-based system could help, utilizing nothing but standard weather-station data.
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KHL Group
Cranes may be based on the same 2000 year old principles, but technology has certainly evolved
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CNBC
Every year, the production of cement accounts for 8% of global CO2 emissions. Solidia Technologies is working to reduce the carbon footprint of the building material.
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Mckinsey
Shifting construction away from traditional sites and into factories could dramatically change the way we build. Will modular construction make a sustainable impact this time around?
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YouTube - Steer AS
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Nature
Sand and gravel are being extracted faster than they can be replaced. Monitor and manage this resource globally, urge Mette Bendixen and colleagues. Sand and gravel are being extracted faster than they can be replaced. Monitor and manage this resource globally, urge Mette Bendixen and colleagues.
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Climate Home News
In a first for the sector, the world's fourth largest maker said it would cut emissions in line with Paris climate goals
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New Scientist
A new type of wood material that reflects sunlight could keep homes cool and cut energy used for air conditioning
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The Architect’s Newspaper
Toggle, a Brooklyn-based startup founded by Ian Cohen and Daniel Blank, is using robots to handle rebar on construction sites.
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Penn State
John Messner, professor of architectural engineering and the director of the Computer Integrated Construction Research Program, is the driving force behind the development of a construction robotics lab — an expansion of current facilities operated by the Department of Architectural Engineering.
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CBC
Exoskeletons allow workers to do some jobs faster and with less strain on their bodies. The hope is this technology will attract younger workers and allow older employees to stay on the job longer, easing the construction industry's labour shortage.
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Pocket
Massive ships, mind-boggling amounts of sand, and an appetite for expansionism in the South China Sea: the recipe for a land grab like no other.
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WeForum
COVID-19 is changing the construction industry. Here are four ways prefab housing, powered by digital technology, could help us provide better, more affordable homes.
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ENR
Ultra-high-performance concrete (UHPC) is rapidly emerging as a premier material for precast concrete construction. First introduced as “reactive powder concrete” in the early 1990s, this material has seen growing usage in the U.S. and abroad over the past decade. UHPC has been used to construct roadway bridges in France, Japan, and Malaysia; pedestrian bridges in Canada and Venezuela; roof pa
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Berkeley Engineering
The team built octet lattices out of polymer, creating a novel way to reinforce concrete
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GCR
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Why leaders in the construction industry say immigration reform could solve Houston’s workforce woes
Houston Public Media
Nearly 100,000 of Houston's construction workers are undocumented. A recent report found that cutting immigration by 30 percent could lose Houston $51 billion.
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Architecture and Design
The CEO of a specialist workforce management company says the contractors responsible for the many state and federal government infrastructure projects will struggle to find enough workers without the right planning in place.
