Englewood Cliffs, NJ.- Those Amazing Professions Inc. (TAP) announces the launch of www.thoseamazingbuilders.com, a website created to interest young people in careers in the construction industry. The site highlights the work and wisdom of construction professionals…
Trimble Breaks Ground On 1.7-Megawatt Solar Array at Westminster, Colorado Headquarters
Project to Offset More than 100 Percent of Trimble’s On-Site Energy Consumption, Includes 660-Kilowatt Solar Carport with 49 Electric Vehicle Charging…
McKinsey Report: Procurement must play key role in decarbonizing construction
Chief procurement officers (CPOs) will be the main drivers for improving the sustainability of construction projects and overall profitability 19 April…
New USGS-FEMA Study Highlights Economic Earthquake Risk in the United States
Sources/Usage: Public Domain. Map showing distribution of average annualized earthquake loss by region. The high concentration of loss in California and the West Coast is consistent with that region’s high seismic hazard, significant population, and building…
American Concrete Institute Releases 2023 ACI Collection of Concrete Codes, Specifications, and Practices
FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. — The American Concrete Institute has released the 2023 ACI Collection of Concrete Codes, Specifications, and Practices. The ACI Collection is the most comprehensive and largest single source of information on concrete design, construction,…
A Home With Walls Like Swiss Cheese?
Nikhilesh Chawla, the Ransburg Professor of Materials Engineering at Purdue University, and Rahul Franklin, a graduate research assistant in materials engineering, prepare to examine a honeybee comb sample with a 3D X-ray microscope at the Flex Lab in Discovery…
Premier to Transform Historic Church into Luxury Residences
DALLAS – Premier, an end-to-end architecture, design, procurement, and project management and development firm, is pleased to announce the firm will lead the interior design and procurement services for the adaptive reuse of St. Lucy’s Church, a…
The New Moving Forward Report is Now Available!
The National Institute of Building Sciences Consultative Council has issued its 2022 Moving Forward Report, looking closely at the relationship between the climate emergency and the built environment, and charting a path toward decarbonization…
Project Will Test Regional Wood in High-Tech Timber Construction Products
The goal behind the UNH Cooperative Extension project funded by the Future Forest Economy Initiative is to increase demand for cross-laminated timber panels created using spruce-pine-fir lumber from the Northern Forest so that more mass-timber projects like…
American Concrete Institute Introduces New Guide for Shotcrete
FARMINGTON HILLS, MI: (March 16, 2023) The American Concrete Institute, through the work of ACI Committee 506, has released ACI PRC-506-22: Shotcrete—Guide. The newly introduced guide provides information on materials and properties of both dry-mix and wet-mix…
