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Tall wood structures rising above doubts
Timber! Long-held reservations are falling for building tall with wood.
This week, the National Building Museum examines “the only building
material that can both reduce carbon emissions and remove carbon from the
atmosphere.” BuiltWorlds joins the discussion.
15 years on, Ground Zero shows final card
Two announcements in two days last week showed how the page is turning on
9/11. In Chicago, crews broke ground on a Chinese-funded, $1-billion,
98-story tower, while NYC unveiled the final piece to the World Trade
Center master plan.
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.
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