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Northwestern Students Ready to Present Concrete 3D Printer?

Northwestern Students Ready to Present Concrete 3D Printer?

With the BuiltWorldsNU team’s final presentation looming on Thursday, the culmination of over five months of work is rapidly approaching. Over 1000 pages of reports, countless tests, hours of presentations, long nights in the prototyping lab, and nearly our entire budget have led to this point. Is the team ready?

Minority Report, HoloLens and Procore's Preview

Minority Report, HoloLens and Procore's Preview

We're Number One! The April release of developer kits for HoloLens unleashed a creative free-for-all that last week saw Procore preview its first AR field application for RFIs. And UCLA showed how AR already is helping designers to reimagine Detroit.

With BIM Mandate Here, UK Turns to Sensors

With BIM Mandate Here, UK Turns to Sensors

The UK's highly anticipated mandate for the use of building information modeling on all government projects is now in effect. Bechtel's Stephen Smith explains how all the new 'big data' sensors will make cities like London not just smarter, but better.

Arup, Rockefeller Launch City Resilience Tool

Arup, Rockefeller Launch City Resilience Tool

Last week in London, after years of joint research and testing, global engineering giant ARUP and the Rockefeller Foundation jointly unveiled a new City Resilience Index, a "pioneering tool for cities to understand and assess their resilience." 

Northwestern Students Give Their Concrete 3D Printer Its Own Test

Northwestern Students Give Their Concrete 3D Printer Its Own Test

Our favorite engineering students from Northwestern U have only two weeks left before their main event: the demonstration of their concrete 3D printer prototype. Now in their home-stretch, BuiltWorldsNU is tinkering away at working out the final kinks. Let's check in with them this week

Building Tomorrows, Cities, AGC Trade on Skills

Building Tomorrows, Cities, AGC Trade on Skills

As the national war for skilled labor heats up, industry groups like AGC are aggressively targeting the next generation. To fight gang recruitment with opportunity, Chicago in particular has launched a new initiative that offers job training to at-risk youth. 

Design Duel: Obama Center Contests Eye Finish

Design Duel: Obama Center Contests Eye Finish

Democratizing architecture? What better place to start than with a U.S. Presidential Library? This spring in Chicago, while the official contest nears a winner, here is an update on our own fun and surprisingly popular crowd-sourced alternative. 

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.

Using Technology to Reduce Risk on Construction Projects

Using Technology to Reduce Risk on Construction Projects

There are physical and financial risks on any jobsite, and they can be exacerbated by lack of communication or simply not having the most recent project documents on hand. Document management technologies could be the solution.

Infrastructure Weak? Yes, So Let's Spend Wisely

Infrastructure Weak? Yes, So Let's Spend Wisely

As if we hadn't heard, ASCE has issued yet another report chronicling how deficient U.S. infrastructure is. But this national Infrastructure Week, just back from NYC, our own Rob McManamy fears some big public spending may be sending the wrong message.

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"!

Still Chugging, U.S. Construction Hits Best Rate Since 2007

Still Chugging, U.S. Construction Hits Best Rate Since 2007

The U.S. construction market has been purring for so long that the roar it made this March may not have been as loud and as emphatic as previous exclamations, but the signs remain healthy nonetheless, both for our industry and the U.S. economy.

Can Tiny Homes Solve Chicago's Big Homeless Problem?

Can Tiny Homes Solve Chicago's Big Homeless Problem?

Sometimes, thinking big actually requires thinking very small. So goes the rationale behind constructing micro housing to address homelessness across the U.S. The topic was the focus of a recent Tiny Homes Summit in Chicago, where the need for housing is acute.

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