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Expanding the exterior footprint

Construction Specifier

In environments like this, where building materials must maintain a high level of both performance and aesthetic, metal fabric is an ideal material for expanding the exterior footprint of existing buildings. Buildings are one of the largest contributors to energy usage, focusing on efficiency and health helps to achieve these changing goals.

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Industrialized Construction Bridges the Gap Between Traditional and Future Building – Q&A with Salla Eckhardt

Autodesk Construction Cloud

The construction industry faces material and l abor shortages and lingering safety, security, and increasing material costs. It’s more about being proactive, predictive, and prescriptive and governing a digital delivery that leads to more optimized fabrication, manufacturing, and assembly onsite.

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Industrialized Construction Bridges the Gap Between Traditional and Future Building – Q&A with Salla Eckardt

Autodesk Construction Cloud

The construction industry faces material and l abor shortages and lingering safety, security, and increasing material costs. It’s more about being proactive, predictive, and prescriptive and governing a digital delivery that leads to more optimized fabrication, manufacturing, and assembly onsite.

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Tomorrow's classrooms: Designing schools for the digital age

BD+C

Integrating Technology Into Educational Design In educational design, technology transcends the status of an add-on; it constitutes the very fabric of our future. This vision extends beyond conventional information technology (IT) infrastructure, encompassing the ever-evolving landscape of software and emerging technologies.

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Looking Toward the Future of Bamboo in Asia

Natural Building

Unlike fabricated materials, the naturally-grown plant comes in a variety of shapes and sizes, making it difficult to generalize norms and standards around construction methods. Population giants like China, India, Bangladesh, and Indonesia are faced with the responsibility of developing housing and infrastructure at exponential rates.

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Building a competitive advantage: New study finds construction technology is why companies are performing better

Autodesk Construction Cloud

However, of all industries, construction still is ripe for the highest likelihood for automation – from the design to offsite fabrication facility and into the field. The hype cycle for these technologies is at an all-time high. And yet despite this, construction is the industry with the lowest penetration of digital technology.

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10 Construction Sessions You Might Have Missed at Autodesk University

Autodesk Construction Cloud

This session discusses the technologies and frameworks that could help infrastructure construction reach net zero by the year 2050. During this session, you’ll learn more about research developed by Autodesk in collaboration with the Australian Constructors Association, Infrastructure Sustainability Council, and Consult Australia.