Emily Buenzle - Wed December 13, 2017
Facebook Announces Big Expansion Plans
Facebook announced Dec. 12 that it will build two additional data centers on its Prineville, Ore. Campus. So far, the tach giant has spent more than $1 billion at this location for the construction of three enormous facilities in addition to another "cold storage" building totaling 1.2 million sq....
Emily Buenzle - Wed December 13, 2017
Students Put Engineering Skills Into Practice With Gingerbread Project
High school students at Greenwich Academy have been busy learning the ins and outs of home construction—with gingerbread. Students in the school's Engineering and Design Lab carefully planned their designs, first with sketches, and then with cardboard prototypes before going to work on the gingerbread itself, Greenwich Time reported....
Andrea Watts - CEG Correspondent - Wed December 06, 2017
Cellulose-Infused Concrete Is One Step Closer to Reality
On a sunny summer day at Oregon State University, before an audience of researchers and representatives from the construction industry, a Knife River-owned ready-mix cement truck poured a batch of concrete....
Emily Buenzle - Wed November 29, 2017
Microsoft Announces Enormous Building Project at Headquarters
Microsoft has big construction plans for its campus in Redmond, Wash. The tech giant announced Nov. 28 a massive project that includes the renovation and expansion of its facilities, called the "Microsoft Redmond Campus of the Future," K5 reported....
Damian Joseph - Wed November 22, 2017
Remote Control Decreases Downtime on Florida's Interstate 4
The alert came in on a sunny Wednesday morning in Florida: 'Engine coolant critically low.' A technician sprang into action, temporarily halting a Volvo excavator from its work on the I-4 Ultimate Improvement Project, where the machine had been playing its part in one of the country's largest infrastructure initiatives....
Mon November 20, 2017
Certified Boom Repair Unveils New Website
Certified Boom Repair has recently unveiled a new website. With new features such as an e-commerce platform, newsletter sign up and blog the company ventures into the present and ramps up its online platform....
Tue November 14, 2017
Leica ScanStation P50 Enables Users to Scan the Inaccessible
Leica Geosystems, an industry leader of measurement technology, announced the Leica ScanStation P50 3D laser scanner as the newest member of the 3D terrestrial laser scanner P-Series. The ScanStation P50 combines all the well-known features of the P40 plus a longer-range scanning capability of more than .6 mi....
Emily Buenzle - Tue November 14, 2017
Bill Gates Buys Land for 'Smart City' Construction
Bill Gates' investment group, Cascade Investment LLC, recently bought a piece of land in Arizona to build a "city of the future," UPI reported. The group paid around $80 million for a piece of Belmont, a 24,800-acre development in the desert, about 45 minutes outside of Phoenix....
Mon October 30, 2017
When Artificial Intelligence Meets The Construction Industry
The potential for artificial intelligence — or AI — is high on the social agenda. Seemingly, everyone from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to Tesla CEO Elon Musk has an opinion on the impact of AI on our everyday lives....
Emily Buenzle - Mon October 30, 2017
CEO Finds Robotic Solution to Industry Labor Shortage
Steve Muck, CEO and chairman of Pennsylvania-based Brayman Construction Corp., has joined forces with Jeremy Searock, former technical program manager of Carnegie Mellon University's National Robotics Engineering Center, to find a robotics-based solution for the labor shortage in the construction industry....
