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

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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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The next phase of sustainability in luxury hotels

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The next phase of sustainability in luxury hotels 0 qpurcell Fri, 09/15/2023 - 11:42 Hotel Facilities The luxury hotel market has seen an increase in green-minded guests looking for opportunities to support businesses that are conscientious of the environment.

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The first step to sustainable transportation

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However, as much of the nation’s industry is heavily reliant on fossil fuels, moving to greener, more sustainable alternatives is likely to be a challenge. With the right system, a designer can visualise a project and assess its impact on the environment. For some sectors, the transition is well underway. The transport transition.

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Construction Cost Knowledge Management

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Information must be presented in plain English, using industry standard terms and definitions, and organized in a standard data format (CSI Masterformat). The use of national average cost databases and/or location factors, or parametric cost models are insufficient. has proven relatively fruitless.

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Boost Construction Collaboration with These AU 2023 Classes

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As a result, you will learn about the knowledge and tools needed to thrive in the industrialization era, bridging gaps and maximizing opportunities presented by advanced technologies. Professionals will be empowered to overcome challenges and maximize sustainability, efficiency, and innovation. 3) Model coordination and collaboration.

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7 Things to Know About the Sustainable Future of Construction

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Construction and the built environment account for nearly 38% of all energy-related carbon emissions around the world. From an environmental, social and economic perspective, it’s simply not sustainable. . 7 key takeaways on the future of sustainability in construction. Incremental change won’t cut it: we need a paradigm shift.

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

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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?