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Meet Spot: A robot that’s being tested to keep construction sites clean

BD+C

After a two-day workshop at the Autodesk Technology Center in Boston that brought together individuals from Skanska, Autodesk Research and Boston Dynamics to ideate and prioritize various use cases for Spot, we landed on housekeeping as the primary use case. They were looking for novel use cases with Spot on construction projects.

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Webinars and Construction Events in March 2022

Autodesk Construction Cloud

The show features 300+ top industry speakers across 11 tracks and AIA CES approved workshops, 250+ exhibitors, exclusive free-to-attend networking events including the Women in Construction and Diversity in Construction, exciting entertainment, New York’s Festival of Construction, celebrity guests and much more. Get more details.

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Young Artist Embraces Natural Building in Trinidad

Natural Building

She taught natural building and weaving (native grasses) courses in workshops. There are examples of multi-story buildings, airports, embassies, hospitals, museums, schools and factories made from clay.

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RESIDENTIAL BUILDING SITE PLANNING

The Constructor

Residential site should not be located near workshops, factories, because such locations are subjected to continuous noise. This aspect saves quite a bit in the cost of the building. Residential house site should be located away from the busy commercial roads. Orientation of the site also has some bearing on its selection.

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LOCATION FOCUS: The Heartland of America Beats Strong

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

Illinois is home to one of the world’s busiest airports, Chicago’s O’Hare International and a major commuter hub at Midway Airport. In addition, the state has more than 137 public use airports, 270 heliports and 840 aviation facilities. Huntley, IL: Activity Abounds.

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PRECAST CONCRETE PROCESS

The Constructor

Production of reinforced cages and main connections: The precast factory often has specialist workshops for the manufacture and maintenance of moulds, and for the production of jig-built reinforcing cages and connections. The individual components are prefabricated off site then taken to site where they are erected.

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Giving and getting: A day in our lives

Construction Marketing Ideas

Also attended a few workshops and seminars. Left conference site at 2:45, to take taxi to Toronto Island Airport, strategically arranging front-of-line spot so security clearance would be reasonably rapid, arriving in lounge at 3:20 p.m., “This is a different show,” the door-watcher told me as he turned me away.)