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Homes That Are Both Prefab and Predesigned

The Pro Builder

But customized designs, even with prefab components, can end up extending the schedule and increasing the budget. That’s one issue that a new partnership between a prefab panel company, B.PUBLIC Prefab , and a design firm, Hereabout Home , aims to solve. Rendering courtesy B.PUBLIC Prefab Just how high is the level of performance?

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2023 Yearbook of Engineering Achievement: Transportation & Infrastructure

Civil + Structural Engineer

It features elements that maximize the safety, security, and efficiency of the travel process including 100 percent automated screening lanes, 100 percent facial recognition “e-gates” for international departure, an innovative landside terminal design, and 100 percent trackable RFID Independent Carrier System.

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5 Design Considerations When Building In Harsh Environments

Construction Marketing

Engineering in harsh environments poses a distinct set of challenges that call for innovative and robust design solutions. Material Selection Selecting the appropriate materials is essential for designing structures in harsh environments. Additionally, they should be low-maintenance, cost-effective, and readily available.

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A new risk landscape is reshaping owner-contractor relationships

Civil + Structural Engineer

Others have pinpointed spiraling labor costs, inflation, and interest rate rises as major risks on the horizon. Traditional design-bid-build models where the burden of risk was principally shouldered by contractors are gradually giving way to more collaborative models where risks and responsibilities are more evenly shared.

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Bentley Systems: Open Data Ecosystems to Advance Infrastructure Engineering

Civil + Structural Engineer

The partnership builds on Bentley’s recent acquisition of Cesium , the foundational open platform for creating powerful 3D geospatial applications. Cumins explained that AI’s potential extends even further, into the design phase of the infrastructure lifecycle. Cesium is the creator of the 3D Tiles open standard also used by Google.

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3 Decisions that Keep Construction Owners Up at Night 

Autodesk Construction Cloud

fraught with rising costs, material challenges, and labor struggles—the pressure to answer these questions correctly becomes even greater. increase in equipment costs, and labor wages rose 3.4%. of construction materials in the RSMeans database experienced a significant cost increase, with an average increase of 19%.

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Tackling high-rise concrete construction challenges

GCP Applied Technologies

concrete / mix design / high rises. As architects design new high-rise buildings taller and with more complexity, producers are challenged to deliver ready-mix concrete that can be pumped, placed, and finished effectively for these structures. What are your current mix proportions and performance and associated costs?