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Construction is one of the largest sources of greenhouse gas emissions, so finding new materials and methods is a crucial goal. Researchers at Flinders University have now developed a new type of polymer, made out of industrial waste, that can be forme… Continue reading Polymer bricks made of industrial waste bond together without mortar
Most houses built in the US today are platform construction: skinny two-by-fours are stacked and layered to create walls with studs. Each floor is framed on top of the other. …read more Continue reading You Wouldn’t 3D Print a House, Would You?
Those of us beyond a certain age will very likely have some fond memories of many an hour spent and pocket money devoured feeding the local arcade pinball machine. At …read more Continue reading A Great Resource For The Would-Be Pinball Machine Builder
Two years ago Reekon Tools introduced its M1 Caliber tool, which added digital measurement functionality to existing power saws. The company is now offering that same tech in a stand-alone tape measure, called the T1 Tomahawk.Continue ReadingCategory: … Continue reading T1 Tomahawk brings digital capabilities to the humble tape measure
If you’re working on a construction project which is indoors or in a sound-sensitive area, using noisy, exhaust-belching machinery isn’t the best idea. That’s one of the reasons Doosan Bobcat developed the just-announced T7X all-electric compact track … Continue reading Bobcat T7X claimed to be world’s first electric compact track loader
The latest 3D printing application? Forming concrete. That’s according to a team at ETH Zurich who claims that construction with foam forms cuts concrete usage up to 70%. It also …read more Continue reading Concrete with 3D Printed Foam Forms
Concrete is the most widely used building material in the world, but it comes at a huge environmental cost. Engineers in Japan have developed a new technique to make concrete by recycling waste concrete and combining it with captured carbon dioxide.Con… Continue reading Green new concrete recycles building waste and captured CO2
Here we are in the future, thinking we’re so fancy and cutting edge with mega-scale 3D printers that can extrude complete, ready-to-occupy buildings, only to find out that some clever …read more Continue reading Retrotechtacular: 3D-Printed Buildings, 1930s Style
Buildots’ technology automatically validates images captured by hardhat-mounted 360-degree cameras, detecting any gaps between the original design and what’s actually happening on construction sites. Continue reading Buildots raises $30M to put eyes on construction sites
Austrian startup Printstones has been developing robotic 3D-printing robots since 2017, and has just pulled back the curtain on its latest prototype, a mobile multi-tasking construction bot called the Baubot.Continue ReadingCategory: Robotics, Technolo… Continue reading Modular mobile robot can take on multiple roles at construction site