Forward-thinking planners and facility managers are combining mature design ideas with new technologies to make their institutions more resilient and supportive of their constituents and surrounding communities
Think of construction projects as production systems where safety, quality, material, equipment, people and reporting are all tied to the same physical output and production flow.
Expansion and maturation of the storm shelter industry are robust, and the last two decades saw increased adoption and advancement due to innovation, improved quality, new standards and guidelines, code requirements and governmental initiatives.
In spite of our industry being surrounded by a broad spectrum of extremely powerful and compelling technologies, performance improvement remains stagnate.
KONE rolls out IBM’s cloud-based Internet of Things platform known as Watson to over a million of its elevators, escalators and doors around the world.
The coming Cat S60 smartphone is water resistant, shock resistant and has a thermal imaging sensor that helps users see temperature patterns in the dark and through walls.
Researchers from the University of California at Berkeley and Harvard University have developed a working prototype of a robot that realigns its body to maneuver through tiny cracks to gather data.
A cloud-based project-management software company releases new apps and pulls back the veil on its app marketplace, boasting plug-in partnerships in construction-relevant fields, from accounting to drone operations.