Category: Bulletin
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HoloBuilder Announces Partnership with Boston Dynamics
HoloBuilder announced today their partnership with Boston Dynamics and released SpotWalk, a new product integration with Boston Dynamics’ Spot robot. The new partnership brings autonomous 360° reality capture to construction projects, addressing core productivity inefficiencies that continue hampering the construction industry. A Walking Robot Captures 360° Images Controlled by HoloBuilder’s SpotWalk app, the Boston Dynamics’…
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7 Days of News – Week 46
Here are our picks from the recent construction technology news. Is 3D printing in construction more than overhyped promises and underwhelming deliveries, asks Andrew Wheeler. Read his summary of the latest developments in this technology. 3D printed buildings could strip out as much as half the cost of building a home, Jason Ballard’s startup, Icon,…
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DiCtion Has Devised an Ontology for Construction
DiCtion is a research and development project led by the Aalto University that seeks to boost productivity through the digitalization of construction workflows. To be able to collect data from various sources and combine it in a meaningful way and without manual interaction, we need a shared data model. DiCtion has devised a data model,…
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Idea Wall for Online Brainstorming
Idea Wall is a software-as-service for collecting ideas online in a structured way. It’s fast to implement and has a zero learning curve for the participants. Sticky notes are great for brainstorming. However, when you are not in the same place physically or you have many teams attending, digital tools work better. Also, if you…
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7 Days of News – Week 45
Here are our picks from the latest construction technology news. “You look at 5G wireless, artificial intelligence (AI), augmented reality (AR), these are going to be three key technologies for your industry,” Michael Hainsworth, executive producer of Futurithmic and co-host of the Geeks & Beats podcast, told the audience at a talk billed Future Forward:…
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InfraBIM Open Program Released – AEC Business
InfraBIM Open is the first conference series in the world concentrating on open infrastructure BIM. The next event takes place on 3-5 February 2020, in Tampere, Finland It is an event for all actors of the infrastructure life cycle. The conference gathers together the best subjects, most visionary people, and the industry leaders. The 2019…
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7 Days of News – Week 44
A ‘Tsunami of solutions’ conference, ‘Wall-as-a-service’ robotics, a roadmap to improve recycling throughout the US, and more in this week’s AEC tech headlines. Cooper Carry recently secured a Radical innovation Award (2019) for their modular hotel design. This deploys modular construction techniques to build ‘pop up’ hotels in interstitial spaces between buildings and allow them…
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7 Days of News – Week 43
Cooper Carry recently secured a Radical innovation Award (2019) for their modular hotel design. This deploys modular construction techniques to build ‘pop up’ hotels in interstitial spaces between buildings and allow them to ‘collapse’ once completed – unlocking new opportunities in crowded urban areas. The UK-based Additive Manufacturing Technologies (AMT) have raised $5.2m to commercialize…
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CEMEX Ventures Invests in X3 Builders, a Vertically Integrated General Contractor
CEMEX Ventures has announced its investment in X3 Builders. X3 Builders is a vertically integrated general contractor that combines architectural design, material procurement, and construction services to provide clients with a one-stop solution and a seamless transition from design to construction. This California-based startup is a completely new type of general contractor due to its…
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A Vision and Strategy for the Adoption of Open International Standards
The final report of RASTI is now available in English. The project outlined a national vision and strategy for the adoption of open international standards in the real estate and construction industries. The Finnish version includes several appendices. One of the frameworks that RASTI devised was a built environment life-cycle process map. It is derived…