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A Five Minute Guide To Zero Net Energy In Buildings
With the fast pace that the world is developing, the amount of physical infrastructures is bound to increase.…
5 Construction Safety Hazards – And How to Protect Your Job Site
Operating a construction site is risky by nature and that’s why superintendents, project managers, and other leaders shroud…
What Makes Steel An Excellent Commercial Building Material?
There’s a wide range of available building materials, such as wood, concrete, and masonry, that you can use…
Tokyo Is The World’s Most Expensive City For Construction
Ahead of yet another overbudget Olympic Games, Tokyo was named the world’s most expensive city for construction. The Turner…
Learn The Most Important Rules Of The Construction Industry In 2021
It is quite common for construction and engineering-related businesses to have a unique set of regulations, regulations that…
They Can Capture More Carbon Than They Emit. So Why Aren’t Wooden Buildings Mainstream?
There are various ways to store excess carbon dioxide. ‘One way is to have it hidden in buildings,’…
Buildings, Tunnels And Bridges Could Soon Repair Themselves
Over time the weather, vibration, ground movements and general wear and tear can take their toll on the masonry…
This Is How Public Buildings Can Serve This Crisis And Be Ready For The Next One
In the event of a public health crisis or natural disaster, public buildings deliver life-saving services and capacity…
How We Can Recycle More Buildings
More than 35 billion tonnes of non-metallic minerals are extracted from the Earth every year. These materials mainly…
As The Climate Changes, Architects And Engineers Need To Design Buildings Differently
In the past seven years, four major disasters have caused serious disruptions in the Northeast and Midwest United…
What Everybody Ought To Know About Rope Access Services
Rope access services are getting popular and there are many companies cropping up all over the place that…
Titanium, For The Safe And Sustainable Modern City
City skylines are often dominated by concrete, steel and glass, but underneath, titanium often provides the core structure…
3 Trends In Urban Property Development In 2019
Urban property development trends for 2019 are shifting dramatically. From millennials moving to the suburbs to the renewed…
4 Main Hazards In The Construction Business
It’s not a walk in the part to working in the construction industry. It involves major risks as…
How To Ensure Your Property Is Weatherproof
There is presently an ongoing debate regarding what the effects of climate change are on our everyday lives.…
An Intriguing Sci-Fi Vision Of A Megacity
Artist Olalekan Jeyifous creates fantastical, futuristic images of Lagos, Nigeria, to get people thinking about how we live…
How To Make Creative Cities — From Buildings To Buses
“I am in love with cities,” says British designer and architect Thomas Heatherwick (TED Talk: Building the seed cathedral). “It’s just…
What Would It Take To Build A Tower As High As Outer Space?
The human desire to create ever bigger and more impressive structures is insatiable. The pyramids of Ancient Egypt,…
More Children Are Living In High-Rise Apartments, So Designers Should Keep Them In Mind
Australian cities are changing. Instead of families living in low-density suburban areas, more parents are raising children in…
‘This Waterfront Needs A Highway’: The Huge Mistakes Cities Keep Making
Why don’t cities learn from the mistakes others have made? We list the terrible ideas that keep being…
The Secret Solution To Urban Heat As Taught By Termites
How do you cool a building without air conditioning? In nature, termites build skyscraper-like mounds that are ventilated…
The Immigrant Architects Who Built New York City
The common wisdom is that New York is a city built by immigrants, its spirit and populace formed…
Autonomy Enables Adaptive Built Environment
Designers’ novel thinking about data, tools and methods is advancing to a point where it’s possible to foresee an…
Smart And Green Real Estate Makes Money Sense, Really
Improved light, ventilation and heat control can boost workers’ productivity by thousands of dollars a year and reduce…
Even The Ancients Cared About Heritage Buildings Before Reinventing Them
In any debate on new construction in our urban centres you are likely to hear phrases like sustainable…
A Winning Skyscraper Design, Done Upside Down
Imagine standing on the edge of New York’s Central Park and looking down into a 1.3-sq mile (3.4-sq…
Why Affordable Housing Still Loses Vs High-Rise In Cost
You may be surprised to hear that condos, all else equal, are more expensive than houses. You should…
How To Pioneer Efficient And Sustainable Community Living
For most of human history, we’ve lived in groups a lot larger than our family unit and reaped considerable…
The Top 10 Cities Of The Future
If you think about it, human settlements tend to have their own gravitational pull. Like stars and planets…
Why Are We Not Making The Most Of Buildings In Cities?
Urban residents around the world have different daily routines, but they share something in common that often goes…
How Future Cities May Look More Like Natural Forest And Why It Matters
With its broad strokes of thinking and long-term implementation, urban planning isn’t the most exciting thing. But planning…
Are We Building Skyscrapers Upside Down?
In a traditional skyscraper, the widest part of the building is at its base, and as the building…
Why Building With Wood In The Future, Has A Future
Vancouver-based architect Michael Green was unequivocal at a conference at which I heard him speak a while ago:…
Why Using Straw For Housing Material Makes Sense
Straw is cheap, good for the environment and an excellent insulator. So why don’t we see more straw…
Building Infrastructure That Cleans The Air
Barcelona is building a traffic bridge out of pollution-neutralizing concrete. Chicago has paved a road with it. Could…
World Class Sustainable And Unique Building Designs
The 12 world class sustainable building designs are featured in a new infographic created by Classic Window Replacements…
Mapping The Age Of Every Building In Manhattan
A tool called Urban Layers tracks Manhattan’s rise, block by block, since 1765. The Harlem Renaissance was the…
Step Inside The 10 Best Green Buildings of 2015
When the American Institute of Architects first started handing out annual awards for sustainable architecture 19 years ago,…
Design For Our Acoustics
Design briefs hardly ever include a description of the acoustic experience that should be achieved. Yet acoustics…
Model Village Lessons
Visiting a new settlement planned on utopian principles during my travels through France this summer set me…
Christchurch As A Modern 21st Century Lab
Following the disastrous earthquakes that have rendered the city centre of Christchurch, New Zealand uninhabitable, the city…
Urban Environment Design And Bad Guys
Whose job is it to prevent crime? The police? The courts? Certainly. However, I’d argue that crime prevention…
7 Ways Architecture Can Tackle Global Warming
Architecture is one of the key drivers of climate change. Between construction and the energy required to keep…
Building For Earthquake Resilience
Base isolation is seismic engineering’s equivalent of seatbelts in cars – and maybe more: it’s a lifesaver and…
Skipping The 13th Floor
Humans assign so much meaning to numbers that superstition affects infrastructure design. In 1988, The New York Times…