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Make It Resilient 2024 Student Contest Encourages New Ways to Build for Extreme Environments

Autodesk Construction Cloud

With its latest annual Make It Real program, Autodesk is challenging high school students to imagine how to design and build a habitat for an extreme environment. For the Make It Resilient 2024 contest , any extreme environment such as a desert, rainforest, deep ocean site, areas prone to flooding, or even another planet can be chosen.

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Educators Place the Spotlight on Modular Construction

GCP Applied Technologies

The modular construction system has been gaining acceptance as it presents a viable solution to address these challenges by optimizing labor resources, reducing on-site construction time and improving project predictability. One of the Academy's supporters, GCP, assists the students to help solve these challenges.

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Higher Education and Managing Repair and Renovations Efficiently

Job Order Contracting

Further, information must be presented with the appropriate level of detail and in the proper manner for the intended audience. Knowledge of efficient life-cycle management of the built environment, supported by LEAN construction delivery, and enabling technology is not. It’s time to change this.

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Meet the Insider: Alan Muse, Global Director of the Build Environment at RICS

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Alan Muse , Global Director of the Built Environment at the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) , is passionate about all of these things. Alan is also a strong believer in the importance of upskilling and education, particularly in today’s modern construction landscape. . What’s one “tool” you can’t live without and why?

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Win More Shortlist Presentations

Help Everybody Everyday

But more often than not, the final selection depends on your ability to win it during the “shortlist presentation.” ” Recently, I asked Erica Olson, author of Speak Simple: The Art of Simplifying Technical Presentations to give us some pointers on improving our shortlist presentations. Can you explain that?

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Specifying high-performance curtain wall in educational facilities

Construction Specifier

Today’s educational campuses do more than provide weather-tight enclosures for instruction and study. The post Specifying high-performance curtain wall in educational facilities appeared first on Construction Specifier. by Kevin Haynes. Photos © Charles LeRette Photography. Photo courtesy Tubelite Inc.

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AEC Next is a Must for Construction Professionals

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AEC Next Tracks and Presentations. A full list of educational tracks and presentations can be found here. Here is a list of some highlighted presentations from the conference. Presented by New Buildings Institute, this presentation seeks to introduce attendees to zero net energy (ZNE). Register for AEC Next.