Tag: projects
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7 mixed-use projects to watch in 2025
Multifamily start activity has slowed significantly over the past year, with a 28.8% year-over-year drop reported in November. However, there are still developers taking advantage of opportunities to deploy capital — many of them on a very large scale. These mixed-use projects are located across the country in both urban and suburban areas, some already…
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FHWA Tightens “Buy American” Rules for Federal Infrastructure Projects
Although it didn’t come as a surprise to many industry experts, as of Jan. 15, 2025, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) waiver program which had long-allowed certain American-based manufacturing requirements to be ignored, came to an end. It likely comes as one of the final policy acts by the Biden Administration on infrastructure, which passed…
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NY mandates contractor registration for publicly funded projects
Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. A new law in New York will directly affect the bidding process for contractors and subcontractors. As of Dec. 30, 2024, contractors and subcontractors on public projects and private projects under Article 8 will be required to register…
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The blueprint for success in mega water projects
The number of mega water infrastructure projects – those ranging from $350 million to over $1 billion – is growing across the U.S. Their success depends on teams with a specialized skill set and experience managing complexity. The United States loses an estimated 2.1 trillion gallons of water annually due to aging and deteriorating infrastructure,…
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Powering Construction Projects with AI – The Latest Opportunities
AI’s potential in construction is vast, from predictive equipment maintenance to ensuring compliance with regulations. Many construction companies are already testing the waters of AI. However, they are still concerned about data security and the best ways to use AI productively. In this post, I examine some notable examples of AI in construction and report how Quickbase,…
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Simulation-Powered Planning for Sustainable Building Projects with Pyry Haahtela
The sustainability of a construction project should not be an afterthought but a crucial consideration from the start. Pyry Haahtela, the COO of Haahtela TVD, shared his views on when and how clients and developers can best manage the carbon footprint of their projects with simulation. The construction industry significantly contributes to carbon emissions, and…
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Develop New Building Projects in Minutes with ARCHITEChTURES
There have been several attempts to automate design tasks. You can go a long way with parameterized and algorithmic tools, but using machine learning has opened unforeseen opportunities for design automation. I talked to the founders of ARCHITEChTURES and witnessed how their AI-powered design tool could create astounding results in just a few minutes. “We…
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NCC Pilots Buildots’ AI in Two Helsinki Building Projects
Buildots, the construction technology startup using AI to provide objective, data-backed insights to contractors and project managers, announced that NCC Finland uses their technology to build two projects. The first is an 8,000 sq m residential project in the Helsinki metropolitan area, and the second is a 9,000 sq m commercial project, Fredriksberg D, in Helsinki.…
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Smart Collaboration on Infrastructure Projects – An Interview with Joe Giegerich
I had the pleasure of interviewing Joe Giegerich, founder and CEO of ProjectReady. We discussed why and how the construction sector should start using an integrated data environment on large infrastructure projects. You can listen to the interview on the AEC Business Podcast. The USA, Japan, China, and the EU are among the economies that…
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Situational Awareness in Infrastructure Constrution Projects
Olli Planting, Development Manager at Infrakit (https://infrakit.com/en/), talked about situational awareness in infrastructure projects at the WDBE Community Session titled “How can supersensing improve infrastructure construction” on September 22, 2021. The session hosts were Aarni Heiskanen (https://aec-business.com) and Paul Wilkinson (http://extranetevolution.com). The session program is at The post Situational Awareness in Infrastructure Constrution Projects appeared…