At Autodesk Inc.’s user conference in Las Vegas, Dec. 1-3, the company talked about new releases, it’s plan to move everything into the cloud and robot-human work relations.
Environmental Defense Fund project to map leaky gas mains and call them out for repairs to reduce greenhouse gas emissions meets willing partner in distribution company with lines to upgrade
Various “thought leaders” in the industry have been trying—some would say hitting their heads against the wall—for at least the 37 years that I have been covering buildings (and likely before that), to use technology to streamline, automate and quicken building design and construction.
The future of wearable technology for the construction industry conjures up images of workers covered in clunky machinery—hydraulically powered exosuits multiplying the wearers’ strength, while gleaming visors with information-dense heads-up displays block their vision.
The Federal Aviation Administration on Nov. 3 convened a 26-person task force to develop ideas for a system to register unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones.
An open-source database of 100 common building materials, which is now available to the public free of charge, lists the materials’ ingredients and their potential harmful threat to human health and the environment.
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