James Litwin, vice president of construction at developer Harbor Bay Real Estate Advisors, was intrigued by the possibilities of mass timber construction for residential and mixed use because of his background as a carpenter before he became a development executive.
Embodied carbon is the carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions associated with materials and construction processes through the lifecycle of a building or infrastructure.
The 30,000-sq-ft Oracle Innovation Lab on the company’s Deerfield, Ill., campus has demonstration space for construction technologies ranging from robots to drones to building automation. While it opened in 2019, the pandemic delayed any serious experiments from getting underway until April 2022.
With its facility monitoring beta program, Autodesk says it's unlocked the power of BIM to facilities management without contractors having to perform labor-intensive recreation of BIM data.
The construction equipment seller and auction house acquired a controlling interest in the online shipping exchange service by upping its investment from 11% to 75%.
Using lean principles and a modular kit-of-parts approach, the design-build team delivered Lakeridge Gardens, a 273,000-sq-ft long-term care facility, in just 13 months on a tight hospital-adjacent site while dealing with COVID-19 safety restrictions.
Standard & Poor's says design-build contractor on the $5.7-billion U.S.-Canada crossing faces substantial delays due to incomplete designs and unknown conditions on the project's Michigan Interchange portion.
US House of Representatives passed a bill to avert a rail shutdown by Dec. 9 that would affect construction and other industries, but the Senate must also pass it before the deadline.