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.
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.
State transportation departments are considering using high-tech maps to measure how much fuel is saved from driving on repaved highways, thanks to a new pavement-vehicle-interaction test developed at MIT.
Thanks to problems with elevator-cable girth, weight and sway, supertall-building specialists often get hung up on the ropes when designing towers taller than 500 or 600 meters.
In one of the biggest investments in automation by the rental industry, United Rentals on Dec. 17 announced that it has entered into a partnership with 5D Robotics to install automation systems on equipment in its rental yards.
The 2015 JBKnowledge Construction Technology Report states that that less than half of the companies that responded could meet Europe’s soon-to-be-implemented requirement of delivering as-built BIM models of all construction projects. “Companies would have a hard time turning spreadsheet data into BIM,” states the survey.