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Building Materials Building Resilience Environmental Impact Assessment 
Civil + Structural Engineer
DECEMBER 18, 2024
Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DfMA) is leading the way in modern building design, reshaping how we build, especially when it comes to mass timber. The construction industry is grappling with growing demands for environmental responsibility and project efficiency.
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UK Construction Blog
JULY 3, 2025
Key Takeaways The construction industry is responsible for 39% of global carbon emissions, making sustainability transformation essential for environmental protection and business viability, with sustainable practices offering significant cost savings and competitive advantages. What Is Sustainable Construction?
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How to Streamline Payment Applications & Lien Waivers Through Innovative Construction Technology
CCR Magazine
NOVEMBER 11, 2024
Key Highlights Architects play a crucial role in designing community living projects that prioritize both environmental and social sustainability. Sustainable design in these projects includes focusing on energy efficiency, renewable energy, water conservation, and green building materials.
UK Construction Blog
JUNE 19, 2025
The post Material Durability Factors in High-Traffic Building Areas appeared first on UK Construction Blog. Locations such as shopping centres, office buildings, and healthcare facilities must consider wear from thousands of footfalls, frequent exposure to moisture, and potential damage from dirt and grit carried in from outside.
BDC Network
OCTOBER 15, 2024
Facility Condition Assessment Data Can Help Reduce Carbon Footprint 1 kcichowicz Tue, 10/15/2024 - 10:59 Facility condition assessments provide powerful insight into your buildings and offer an ideal vehicle to advance resiliency and decarbonization goals.
Construction Specifier
JANUARY 13, 2025
Building on straightforward material testing and proven project successes, the industry is making significant strides toward developing accountable language and precise definitions that can be universally specified to address concrete floor challenges. Photo courtesy Bennett Build What is polished concrete, exactly?
Construction Specifier
JANUARY 26, 2025
Photo courtesy Intertek As building codes and standards evolve, the demand for airtight, environmentally friendly building enclosures increases among building owners, insurers, and design professionals. Air barriers are essential for maintaining the integrity and performance of building enclosures.
CCR Magazine
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
The idea of maintaining a high-rise building might seem daunting, but it’s a crucial aspect of ensuring safety and longevity. By staying on top of maintenance tasks, you ensure a safer environment for residents and a more sustainable building overall. You might wonder if implementing these technologies will impact costs.
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Roads Online
JUNE 20, 2025
At AustStab, the Australian Pavement Recycling and Stabilisation Association, we’ve seen first-hand how cutting-edge thinking and collaborative effort are unlocking new levels of performance, resilience and sustainability across Australia’s roads. As we celebrate the progress made, we’re also looking ahead to the next wave of change.
UK Construction Blog
JULY 18, 2025
Important phases include: Assessment Phase: Quickly assess the situation to determine the number of units needed and the best locations for deployment. Preparedness: Planning and Pre-Disaster Assessment Before a disaster strikes, preparedness plays a key role. You must prioritize based on urgency and need.
UK Construction Blog
JUNE 25, 2025
Brexit’s lasting impact compounds the crisis, with EU construction workers in London dropping from 42% to just 8% since 2018, creating wage inflation and project delays averaging 15% cost overruns. Building costs are forecast to increase 17% over the next five years, with tender prices rising 15% over the same period.
CCR Magazine
JANUARY 21, 2025
In construction, it means leveraging tools such as Building Information Modeling (BIM), artificial intelligence, drones, and IoT-enabled devices to streamline processes, enhance productivity, and reduce costs. Rising prices for materials, shortages of workers, and unpredictable market conditions make this even harder.
ENR Construction
JUNE 16, 2025
The sanguine assessment counters a concerning stumble in Honolulu construction starts last year. That impact is also reflected in the Dodge data that show environmental public works starts are forecast to grow by almost 45% to tally $2.4 Rising sea levels also impact infrastructure near our coastlines. billion in 2024.
Construction Specifier
NOVEMBER 29, 2024
By Tracy Cook Photos courtesy Tarkett There are many expectations from indoor spaces today: they must look aesthetically pleasing but be strong enough to withstand heavy use, be easy to clean but not feel sterile and unwelcoming, and they should feature healthy, sustainable materials that support human and environmental health.
UK Construction Blog
MARCH 4, 2025
Assessing Your Garage Space and Planning Improvements Transforming your garage requires thorough preparation before any renovation work begins. A proper assessment helps identify both limitations and opportunities in your space. Your primary purpose guides decisions on layout, materials, and budget allocation.
UK Construction Blog
APRIL 2, 2025
With its seamless finish, customisable designs, and remarkable resilience, it’s quickly becoming the preferred choice for property owners who value both style and functionality. Epoxy flooring is a thermosetting polymer that creates a rigid plastic material when mixed with a hardener. What Is Epoxy Flooring?
UK Construction Blog
APRIL 2, 2025
This remarkable material can be tailored with features like anti-slip properties for safety or self-smoothing for a polished appearance, making it suitable for domestic, industrial and commercial environments alike. This type of epoxy is ideal for spaces where environmental concerns are paramount, such as homes with children or pets.
UK Construction Blog
JULY 18, 2025
The post Loft Conversion Planning: The Critical Role of Technical Drawings and Structural Assessment appeared first on UK Construction Blog. However, successful loft conversion projects require meticulous planning, precise technical documentation, and thorough structural assessment from the outset.
Construction Specifier
APRIL 16, 2025
As the global focus on sustainability and climate change intensifies, the United States is seeing a new trend in building restoration-deep energy retrofits. buildings account for nearly 50 percent of energy consumption and 35 percent of total energy-related emissions. C above pre-industrial levels.
UK Construction Blog
JULY 14, 2025
Assess Your Current Infrastructure Before diving into new cabling solutions, you’ll want to thoroughly assess your current infrastructure. Inspect for wear and tear, environmental hazards, or improper installations that could compromise reliability. Don’t overlook physical conditions either.
Civil + Structural Engineer
AUGUST 1, 2023
Additionally, selecting the right materials throughout the project is pivotal in enabling structures to withstand whatever Mother Nature may bring. Beyond their strength, HSS also contributes to sustainable and resilient practices. Retrofitting existing structures to meet updated codes is critical to improving community resilience.
Construction Specifier
JUNE 30, 2025
impacting both coastal and inland regions. lies in ruins after Hurricane Milton’s devastating impact. The storm’s powerful winds and storm surge overwhelmed the building’s defenses, leading to roof collapse and shattered windows. Flooding is the leading cause of destruction in natural disasters across the U.S., mm (1 in.)
Civil + Structural Engineer
SEPTEMBER 1, 2023
By Kristin Dispenza, Advancing Organizational Excellence Cement has historically been so far upstream in a building’s supply chain that designers, engineers, and building owners ignored the details of its production. Ignacio Cariaga, Commercial Sustainability Director, Northwest Region, Heidelberg Materials North America.
Construction Specifier
JUNE 17, 2024
2 Buildings are responsible for approximately 42 percent of CO2 emissions, 15 percent of which is attributed to the embodied carbon of materials. trillion sf) of building floorspace by 2060—equivalent space of New York City added every month for 40 years—the time for the industry to act is now.
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Construction Specifier
MAY 2, 2025
The focus now includes how well a building serves its occupants and the environment, especially in the face of increasing climate challenges. Engineers, architects, and specifiers are under growing pressure to design and deliver spaces that prioritize sustainability, occupant well-being, and resilience.
Autodesk Construction Cloud
FEBRUARY 1, 2023
In this special Autodesk University episode, hear Shannon Goodman , Executive Director of the Lifecycle Building Center , share her expertise on utilizing construction waste for more sustainable and reusable buildings. Join us and discover how to reduce waste on the job site and find new uses for materials.
BDC Network
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
Dean Lewis, Graham Finch, and David Simkins Contractors Mass Timber Moisture Protection Sustainable Development Sustainable Design and Construction Mass timber has gained popularity as a building material praised for its sustainability and aesthetic appeal.
PN - Project Management
DECEMBER 10, 2024
In construction, this data originates from project management software, sensors embedded in equipment, drones , building information modeling (BIM) tools, financial records, and weather forecasts. Tracking workforce productivity , material usage, machinery performance, and environmental conditions produces a constant data stream.
BDC Network
MAY 11, 2023
Let's build toward a circular economy 0 qpurcell Thu, 05/11/2023 - 09:34 Sustainability Eric Corey Freed, Director of Sustainability, CannonDesign, discusses the values of well-designed, regenerative buildings. A sustainable relationship to a building, community and planet should be the floor, not the ceiling.
UK Construction Blog
MARCH 21, 2024
The post Smart Construction Practices: Prioritizing Flood Risk Assessment For Project Success appeared first on UK Construction Blog. Smart construction practices are essential today, where climate change and unpredictable weather patterns make it increasingly important to build with foresight and resilience in mind.
Roads Online
AUGUST 13, 2024
Australia has a long way to go if it’s to achieve its goal of cutting emissions by 43 per cent by 2030 and reaching net-zero by 2050, with Climate Action Tracker currently assessing Australia’s progress as “insufficient”. Now imagine this impact across all states and territories. Image: SPA.
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Stok
AUGUST 28, 2019
Five major themes in high performance real estate rose to the top from this year’s conference in San Francisco, presenting bold solutions for the sustainable built environment that tackle environmental, social, and economic challenges in California and at the global scale. #1: 1: Embodied Carbon Comes First.
BDC Network
MAY 11, 2023
Let's build towards a circular economy 0 qpurcell Thu, 05/11/2023 - 09:34 Sustainability Eric Corey Feed, Director of Sustainability, CannonDesign, discusses the values of well-designed, regenerative buildings. A sustainable relationship to a building, community and planet should be the floor, not the ceiling.
UK Construction Blog
SEPTEMBER 26, 2023
With environmental concerns gaining precedence, stakeholders who are keen on being with the times are adopting strategies to reduce ecological impact. Sustainable Site Selection Sustainable site selection involves considering the environmental, social, and economic impacts of a construction project on a specific location.
UK Construction Blog
SEPTEMBER 16, 2023
The post Read the Latest News on Crumbling Concrete Schools, “Customization Culture” of Building Hinders Digital Maturity, UK Construction Growth Decelerates Due to Housing Market Turmoil and Weak Demand, and Renewable Energy and Low-impact Materials Make Construction Greener appeared first on UK Construction Blog. RAAC, what?
Civil + Structural Engineer
JUNE 10, 2024
To better protect our drinking water systems, utilities are increasingly investing in tools and strategies that improve resiliency by safeguarding infrastructure assets and protecting access to clean water. Without a comprehensive understanding of all system assets, it can take days or even weeks just to assess damage.
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Civil + Structural Engineer
JUNE 10, 2024
To better protect our drinking water systems, utilities are increasingly investing in tools and strategies that improve resiliency by safeguarding infrastructure assets and protecting access to clean water. By John Clow, MentorAPM co-founder and COO The extreme weather risk to clean water infrastructure is up— way up.
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Civil + Structural Engineer
JUNE 10, 2024
By recognizing the young professionals already making a profound impact on the AEC industry, we are able to get a full view of its future. This impact also extends to work done in their communities as well as leadership and mentorship within their firms. For me, Rising Stars is the perfect way to start the awards season.
Roads Online
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
The National Transport Research Organisation (NTRO) and predecessor ARRB have helped to introduce practical, sustainable alternatives to virgin materials for major infrastructure components. She says the NTRO plays an invaluable role in promoting the use of recycled materials. The resilience aspect also ties back to performance.
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UK Construction Blog
SEPTEMBER 26, 2023
With environmental concerns gaining precedence, stakeholders who are keen on being with the times are adopting strategies to reduce ecological impact. Sustainable Site Selection Sustainable site selection involves considering the environmental, social, and economic impacts of a construction project on a specific location.
UK Construction Blog
NOVEMBER 8, 2023
It serves as a barrier, resisting the flow of heat through walls, roofs, and floors, thus maintaining a building’s temperature irrespective of external weather conditions. The environmental impact is significant: less fuel burned means a reduction in the release of greenhouse gases.
Construction Specifier
OCTOBER 12, 2021
Both are affected by the material science that goes into the product: How are they constructed? Where do the materials come from that make these products? The materiality of different resilient flooring products may alter some perceptions regarding sustainability. Do most people think all rubber comes from a rubber tree?
CCR Magazine
OCTOBER 7, 2024
For industries operating in areas prone to these natural events, assessing potential geohazards is crucial. Geohazard assessment is the process of identifying, analyzing, and mitigating these risks before they lead to damage. In many cases, companies seek professional support to handle these complex assessments effectively.
Autodesk Construction Cloud
JANUARY 9, 2024
But amidst these challenges, construction pros remained as resilient and innovative as ever. We adopted new technologies, embraced sustainable building practices, and were more vocal about the benefits of working in the AEC field. And things continue to look up: Data from Deloitte shows a 7.4%
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