Multiple top construction tool suppliers have introduced new tools and technologies to the market since the beginning of 2024. We have observed various improvements in electric, battery-powered and cordless tools, […]
The construction industry is once again gearing up for its annual Construction Safety Week. While the industry has made significant progress in lowering the frequency of recordable incidents on job […]
Quoted excerpts appear as part of the BuiltWorlds Contributor Program. Hammad Chaudhry keenly understands how technology can both enhance and bottleneck construction workflows. As vice president of innovation and construction […]
This article excerpt was submitted as part of BuiltWorlds’ Verified Contributor Program. Nearly 40% of global greenhouse gas emissions come from buildings, thus reducing the carbon footprint of buildings is […]
Prefabrication for the ZGF-designed remodeling of Portland’s international airport terminal, the first airport to have a mass timber roof. Image courtesy of ZGF Building Conference Preview Marty Brennan, principal at […]
Of the many buzzwords in environmental sustainability, resilience may be the most overused, but there’s good reason behind it. Resilience is about both the capacity to endure challenges (like flooding […]
Ray Levitt Operating Partner Blackhorn Ventures Ahead of his panel “Financing Construction FinTech” in the afternoon of Day One of the upcoming Venture West Conference, we decided to hear from […]
Venture West Preview When it comes to built world innovation, Silicon Valley is not just a place for digital transformation of how we design, build and maintain our physical infrastructure, […]
Leading AEC Software Giants Embrace NVIDIAs Omniverse Cloud APIs Last week, NVIDIA announced that NVIDIA Omniverse™ Cloud will be available as APIs, extending the reach of their platform for creating […]
Each year, teams of student engineers design, construct, and race a canoe made of concrete against other university teams in the ASCE’s Concrete Canoe competition. This year, we’re once again following the Illinois Tech team as they try to make it to Nationals.
We check back with the ASCE Illinois Tech student chapter as they recover from a near-mistake and cast their canoe for the 2017 Concrete Canoe competition. Will their boat float?
Remember the team of Illinois Tech engineering students? They finally got to race their concrete canoe at the ASCE regionals in Milwaukee. How did they do? Will they move onto the finals? The final installment in our epic saga…
