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Comfort Systems Road Map: A Plug-and-Play Residential Duct System

Pro Builder

Comfort Systems Road Map: A Plug-and-Play Residential Duct System. Now, a new duct system is set to transform the home heating and cooling industry in the same way, thanks to early investments by the Building Technologies Office at the U.S. In fact, IBACOS used the “PEX model” when developing the system. “We Eric Werling.

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Augmenting Your Workforce for Success

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Construction companies remain as resilient as ever, but we'd be remiss if we didn't talk about the very real challenges our industry faces. models or design data—onto the real world. Another excellent use case is leveraging augmented reality to spot potential design clashes, thus avoiding costly work down the road.

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The tale of two BIM-stillborns and the relativity of time in developing global BIM to a useful level

DebunkTheBIM

This time thing, that we were doing things 10+ (If not 20) years ago that others nowadays call new and revolutionary brings me to the topic I really wanted to write about, and that is ‘how important time is (or is not) in getting BIM really working within this industry?’ Other would read data from the models, analyze and repurpose.

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Housing, Industrialized: Your Road Map to Off-Site Construction

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Housing, Industrialized: Your Road Map to Off-Site Construction. But that ordeal didn’t sour Wathen Castanos on industrialized construction (IC). Sidebar: The Synergy of Industrialized Construction and Built-for-Rent Housing. The IC Road Map will “demystify the process” for single-family builders, he says. “We

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State of the Construction Industry: February Roundup

Viewpoint Construction Technology

Worker safety, adapting to change and technology and innovation driving the future of the construction industry were some of the themes we saw highlighted in industry news throughout February. Reducing safety incidents is a top priority in the construction industry. Continued Safety Incidents Highlight Need for Better Oversight.

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Can We Make Home Building a Little Less ‘Interesting?’

Pro Builder

I wrote columns about the coming trade labor shortage more than 10 years ago and was pretty hard on the industry for not engaging in meaningful ways to solve it. The Colorado Springs model for bringing back trade skills training in high schools is spreading. The home building industry has been pretty good to you, hasn’t it?

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Cool Planet Energy Systems Announces $168 Million Investment In Louisiana Bio-Refineries

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The fuel will be compatible for use in existing vehicles on the road today. The company’s business model calls for developing 400 of the micro-refineries across the U.S. Our goal is to have operating and capital costs that are competitive with conventional oil industry gasoline production costs.”. in the next decade.