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DfMA Approach to Mass Timber Design: Engineering a Greener Future

Civil + Structural Engineer

The construction industry is grappling with growing demands for environmental responsibility and project efficiency. By focusing on standardization, modularization, and prefabrication, DfMA allows engineers to design components that are easier to manufacture and simpler to assemble onsite.

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Efficient Home Construction: Optimizing Rim Transport Frames

CCR Magazine

Key Highlights Discover the impact of rim transport frame optimization on sustainable building practices. Learn how to incorporate prefabrication and modular design for efficiency. Explore strategies to minimize environmental impact and enhance durability. This choice can also change how the frame impacts the environment.

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Mass Timber Buildings: Sustainable Path to Net Zero Goals

CCR Magazine

Life-cycle assessment (LCA) is the industry tool for evaluating the embodied impacts of a building design, but what it cannot account for is the potential carbon “storage vault” mass timber infrastructure offers cities. Further, a significant 96% of construction waste was recycled, minimizing environmental impact.

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Barrier breakthroughs: Achieving airtightness in modern construction

Construction Specifier

Photo courtesy Intertek As building codes and standards evolve, the demand for airtight, environmentally friendly building enclosures increases among building owners, insurers, and design professionals. Within the AEC industry, research focuses on predicting and quantifying the impact of air leakage. By Matthew Ridgway, P.E.

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Retrofitting Europe’s Homes: How Digital Construction can Support Greener, Affordable Housing

Autodesk Construction Cloud

There’s also the impact of retrofitting for residents. The Energiesprong Foundation has partnered with manufacturing to create a “whole-building” approach , using prefabricated parts. It can be difficult for owners to assess the full implications of retrofitting projects. Getting the fundamentals right with digital construction.

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BIM Dimensions 101: 3D, 4D, 5D,6D, 7D, 8D, & Beyond

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Sustainability 6D BIM integrates environmental data into the model. This 6th dimension builds on all the other models above to help you optimize the building's environmental performance. It considers the building's entire lifecycle and includes data like energy consumption and environmental impact. What is 6D BIM?:

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Let's build toward a circular economy

BDC Network

One new service line I see the industry offering is material lifecycle and utilization plans, where our staff, or other organizations, can assess buildings to tell you what materials you have, their value, age, and create a potential next life for the material to be circulated into a neighboring building project.