Analyst Briefings, News From Around the Network & Verified Member Contributor Posts
With news making headlines every day in the built world, Analyst Briefings, News From Network Members, and Expert Contributor Posts help keep member connected and up to date.
In addition to our own Analyst Briefings, our Verified Contributor Program empowers members to submit analysis in their fields of expertise, while our News from Around the Network pulls updates posted by member companies from their company pages to help keep the network connected.
Canstruction: AEC Rallies to Feed Hungry
How do companies like Gensler, Arup, and McShane Construction help fight
hunger? By designing and building structures out of cans — duh! While
Canstruction is an international organization, BuiltWorlds reporter Alexis
Chastain attended one of the regional events to find out more.
AoT: Chicago first in U.S. with urban sensors
Knowledge is power. How well does any city really work nowadays? How do we
review that performance, and where do we gather the data? Those questions
and more are on the table this fall as the nation’s first Array of Things
sensors are deployed throughout Chicago.
U.S., China ratify, amplify Paris Climate Pact
Last week in China, on the eve of the G20 Summit, the world’s two biggest
economies and top polluters took concrete steps to reduce carbon emissions.
Their action all but ensures the Paris Agreement will take effect next
year.
IoT: Connected world faces benefits, threats
The ‘Internet of Things’. By now, it’s a term we have all heard, but what
does it really mean? And what does it mean for business? Technologist
Burcin Kaplanoglu takes a deep dive into the mind-boggling promise and
personal privacy concerns of Big Data.
Making ‘little plans’ on Burnham’s big day
Master planner Daniel Burnham turns 170 this Sunday. Now, as Chicago
catches its breath in the wake of two big design decisions from George
Lucas and Barack Obama, the late architect behind the Burnham Plan drops by
BuiltWorlds for a surprise visit.
Solar wrap: Aussie tower aims to go off-grid
Developers down under have unveiled plans for a soaring 60-story apartment
tower to be wrapped in more than 3,000 sq m of solar panels. The Sol
Invictus Tower aims to be the nation’s first to use a solar-based
engineering scheme in its building frontage.
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