The article The House the Robots Built by Ben King in the BBC’s Disruptors series explains how the construction industry can use new technologies to improve productivity and quality. The video titled Why is building so slow and expensive? leads into...
Built Robotics and Mortenson have announced their partnership. The partnership is focused on earthmoving activities for renewables projects like wind and solar farms, which tend to be in remote areas, far from traditional workforce centers. “Our robo...
Our May 2019 newsletter includes Aarni’s thoughts at a construction site, links to our posts in May, links to other popular posts we shared on social media, and a short list of interesting events. If you want the newsletter delivered straight to your...
The Construction Digital Maturity Ladder™, CDML, is an 8-minute online assessment that enables construction companies around the world to measure their digital maturity and benchmark the results both locally and globally. The CDML is provided by Lets...
A Finnish experimentation project developed a framework for classifying ground conditions for building and infrastructure construction. It will help anticipate the future cost of foundation laying during the early stages of city planning. The ground...
NXT BLD (Next Build) is a future looking conference and exhibition which explores emerging technology for the built environment, beyond BIM. Topics include digital fabrication, artificial intelligence, robots, generative design, VR, reality modeling,...
In this podcast interview with Shajay Bhooshan, Senior Associate at Zaha Hadid Architects, we discuss computational design, digital fabrication, and AI. The topics include: Parametric, algorithmic, and generative design –are these all the same? How m...
The Construction Blockchain Consortium, CBC, holds its first International Symposium titled Digital Trust in the Built Environment on June 6-7, 2019, in Paris. Held in collaboration with the Scientific and Technical Centre for Building (CSTB), the sy...
An international ideas competition started off on 15 May 2019 in Viinikanlahti, a highly exciting area close to Tampere city center. Competitors get to design a housing area of over 3,000 residents on the shores of Lake Pyhäjärvi, as well as a leisur...
Modular construction–offsite manufacturing of building units– is on the rise. It can provide affordable housing, but it can be applied to many other purposes as well. Here are my picks from recent modular construction news. Autovol: An Automated Volu...
