Construction
Rob McManamy
DEWALT shifts to solve jobsite WiFi woes

Yesterday, DEWALT, accompanied by Procore, announced their new WiFi Mesh, which promises to increase wireless connectivity on the jobsite. We talked to two DEWALT executives about the new product — here's what they had to say.

DEWALT shifts to solve jobsite WiFi woes
Architecture + Design
Rob McManamy
Data-driven design propelling collaboration

"Data-driven design" suggests an impersonal, robotic process that replaces human creativity with cold numbers. But at our latest BuildIdeas Breakfast, we learned from IBM Watson and Detroit Mercy Hospital that it can mean greater customer satisfaction.

Data-driven design propelling collaboration
Business
Rob McManamy
Hawaii, Vermont, RI see clean energy surge

Despite wavering venture investment, the clean energy market is still growing from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Here, the annual Clean Energy Trust Challenge gives us a welcome opportunity to check in on multiple, vibrant efforts to implement power innovation.

Hawaii, Vermont, RI see clean energy surge
Cities
Rob McManamy
Cities, data drive BW Summit conversations

If cities will yield the richest data upon which tomorrow's most consequential decisions will be based, then it is no surprise they were a recurring topic at last week's BuiltWorlds Summit. To see some of the actionable insights that were shared, read on.

Cities, data drive BW Summit conversations
Architecture + Design
Rob McManamy
Obamas unveil Presidential Center design

Just days after the former First Lady urged architects not to neglect inner cities, she and her husband came home to Chicago this week to reveal their vision for a $500-million community hub that they hope will reinvigorate a long-struggling community.   

Obamas unveil Presidential Center design

Illinois Institute of Technology

New start: Illinois Tech engineers 2017 ASCE Concrete Canoe (pt 1)

New start: Illinois Tech engineers 2017 ASCE Concrete Canoe (pt 1)

Each year, teams of student engineers design, construct, and race a canoe made of concrete against other university teams in the ASCE's Concrete Canoe competition. This year, we're once again following the Illinois Tech team as they try to make it to Nationals.

IIT Design: What Touring the World Taught Us

IIT Design: What Touring the World Taught Us

After months of fact-finding visits to the far-flung trenches of the global maker movement, IIT's Institute of Design is back home this week, hosting a World Strategy Tour Conference to share lessons learned from Hong Kong, Mumbai, Detroit, and San Francisco.

Students Prep for ASCE Nationals Without Burning Their Bridges

Students Prep for ASCE Nationals Without Burning Their Bridges

After advancing beyond the regional ASCE Steel Bridge Competition, the team from Illinois Tech checks in with their second entry. While they plan to head out west for Nationals in Utah, the familiar mantra inside camp is "Provo, let's go"!

Student Engineers are Building a Steel Bridge to Utah

Student Engineers are Building a Steel Bridge to Utah

You might be a little familiar with the Steel Bridge Competition. Like the concrete canoe competition, it shares the similar goal of providing engineering students with the opportunity to use design and build as a competition piece. We partnered with a group of students from Illinois Tech to follow their progress. Did they bridge the gap?

Concrete Countdown: It's Sink or Swim Time! (Part 3)

Concrete Countdown: It's Sink or Swim Time! (Part 3)

But will it float? That question is already causing engineering students on 19 different Midwest college teams to lose sleep as they bring their homemade concrete canoes to Chicago for tomorrow's regional finals. Here, host Illinois Tech shares its 11th-hour angst.

Concrete, Canoes, Cramming and Caffeine (Part 2)

Concrete, Canoes, Cramming and Caffeine (Part 2)

Regional finals are just days away for the National Concrete Canoe Competition, sponsored by the American Society of Civil Engineers. In this second installment, we check in with our team at Illinois Tech for an update as the big race nears.

ACE Mentors, Scouts Highlight Next-Gen Outreach

ACE Mentors, Scouts Highlight Next-Gen Outreach

It's never been easier to be cynical about life in these United States, but two construction industry events last week in Chicago reminds us of how promising and extraordinarily hopeful this day and age still is, both for this industry and our planet.

Illinois Tech Adds Innovation Center to Iconic Campus

Illinois Tech Adds Innovation Center to Iconic Campus

Less may be more, as Mies van der Rohe famously said. But sometimes you still need more of it. That is the case this spring on the historic campus of Illinois Institute of Technology, where architect John Ronan is channeling the Modernist master.

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The Driverless City

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The Driverless City

With the recent announcement of three finalists for the inaugural $1-million Nayar Prize, the Illinois Institute of Technology is putting its money where the innovation is. It’s readily apparent to all that autonomous vehicles are on the horizon, but can our cities handle them?  Enter “The Driverless City” team.

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