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Walmart has completed one of the largest free-standing, 3D-printed commercial structures in the US. Alquist 3D printed the almost 8,000-sf, 20-foot-high addition to a Walmart store in Athens, Tenn. The expansion, which will be used for online pickup and delivery, is the first time Walmart has applied 3D printing technology at this scale.
Researchers at ETH Zurich, a university in Switzerland, have developed a new robotic additive manufacturing method to help make the construction industry more sustainable. Unlike concrete 3D printing, the process does not require cement.
A new survey of A/E firms found that more than three-fifths of 652 respondents expect AI to improve their operational efficiency. That survey, though, also found that the same portion of respondents wasn’t using AI yet, and two-thirds admitted they were struggling with where and how to apply AI.
This month, the Portland International Airport (PDX) main terminal expansion opened to passengers. Designed by ZGF for the Port of Portland, the 1 million-sf project doubles the capacity of PDX and enables the airport to welcome 35 million passengers per year by 2045.
The device lets users edit sketches, plans, and images with a stylus or their fingers.
Besides revolutionary changes to the world’s workforce, artificial intelligence could have a profound impact on the built environment and the AEC industry.
The more that clients demand the service, the easier it is to justify the cost of laser scanning equipment and software.
Making things like augmented reality, precise measurements of indoor spaces, and indoor wayfinding possible, Google’s Project Tango has all the makings to become a useful and ubiquitous tool in the AEC market.
Experts say yes. But what’s needed is a point person who makes sure that sensing devices can “talk” to each other.
Ease of installation is one of StratIS’s selling features.
Designates best-in-class Internet connectivity.
Using advanced design computation, a design team demonstrates how to ‘erase’ a building’s shadows.
A prefab construction company in China built a 57-story tower in 19 days. Here’s how they did it.
With his $5 billion, 13.6 million-sf Gigafactory, Tesla’s Elon Musk seeks to change the economics of battery energy storage, forever.
