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The future of sustainable and affordable housing

Lets Build

Global warming is one of the main reasons why sustainable housing is ideal for future construction. Sustainable homes do not only help the environment by reducing the overall environmental impact during and after construction, but it contributes towards many social and economic benefits. Construction Material.

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Life-cycle management of the built environment – To BIM or Not to BIM?

Building Information Management

Buildings, roads, dams, electrical grids… are with us for a very long time and linked to the success and failure of just about everything… education, health, national security, transportation, habitat, sustainability, national and local economies and more. That said, we are not acting as stakeholders of our built infrastructure.

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Top Sustainable Construction Materials to Build a Better Future 

Autodesk Construction Cloud

One of the things that often comes up when discussing the future of construction is sustainability. In addition, scarcity concerns over mineral resources and especially water provide for an additional urgency to extend the narrow focus on energy use in buildings and the associated greenhouse gas emissions. The good news?

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Are Green Building Rating Systems Really Sustainable?

Natural Building

Professor Janis Birkeland is an honorary professor at the University of Melbourne who has taught sustainable planning and architecture at several universities. Previously, she worked as a planner, architect, and lawyer in San Francisco to gain insights into the impediments to sustainability. Is this really progress?

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Why You Should Make 4D Construction Sequencing ‘Business as Usual’ – and How To Do It

Autodesk Construction Cloud

You create fancy animations and visualisations of the built assets coming to life, ultimately presenting a relatively low-fidelity model of the asset you’re creating. We all know about the three dimensions of our built environment. But it can be so much more. What is 4D construction sequencing?

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Construction Productivity Goals 2025 – UK versus US – Improving Construction Productivity

Building Information Management

Efficient project delivery methods such as Integrated Project Delivery – IPD for major new construction, and Job Order Contracting – JOC for renovation, repair, sustainability, and minor new construction, among others, are proven and have been practiced effectively for decades. Job Order Contracting / Integrated Project Delivery.

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Enabling real-time collaboration in Egyptian construction

Autodesk Construction Cloud

The team seeks to enable broader project teams to achieve high-quality results in the most efficient way possible, through using standardised processes and schedules in an integrated common data environment in Autodesk Construction Cloud. Before we used the forms feature in Autodesk Build, collecting good quality data was difficult.