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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. In energy-efficient home building, every detail matters. Optimizing lesser-known parts, like rim transport frames, can greatly help in making homes sustainable and eco-friendly.

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Sustainability and the Port of Virginia

Civil + Structural Engineer

This milestone aims to eliminate the port’s carbon footprint through various green initiatives, including the transition to renewable energy sources, the electrification of port operations, and infrastructure modernization. billion investment, aims to build a state-of-the-art container terminal.

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Build lean, clean, and green: Exploring off-site heavy timber construction

Construction Specifier

Recent disruptions in supply chains, workforce shortages, and other obstacles to project schedules have led more owners and contractors to look for off-site, prefabricated construction methods to improve the quality and efficiency of their builds. Other advantages include the aesthetic quality and durability.

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$7.5B Digital Infrastructure City To Be Built In Las Vegas

Business Facilities

The net-zero buildings within their own insular mini-city will feature automated multi-functional designs, renewable energies from solar/wind/water/kinetic, autonomous vehicles, artificial intelligence (AI), augmented reality, Internet of Things (IoT), robotics, supertrees, and self-healing concrete structures. CTIO, Bertrand Dano.

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20 construction industry trends to watch in 2020

Building Radar

Building planning: digital for optimized workflow 2. IoT: building with wireless intelligence 5. Mega-trend in the construction industry: the 3D-printed building 11. Puzzle on the construction site: modular building with prefabrication in factories 14. Sustainability: Building becomes greener 15.

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40 Under 40: Champions of Construction 2021

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Christian Paul , Gilbane Building Company. Dakota Clifford , Virginia Department of Transportation. Regarded as a pioneer of BIM technology at Amazon, Nima Jafari currently serves as the company’s Regional Senior BIM Manager, where he’s building the Emerging Technologies Department in Amazon TES from the ground up.

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The go with Kobelco

Roads Online

The company has been manufacturing equipment for just short of a century, using more than 80 years of experience to develop and distribute the latest in lattice boom crawler cranes, telescopic boom crawler cranes, and heavy-duty base crawler cranes. This range includes lifting capacities varying from 4.9 to more than 550 metric tonnes.