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Johnson Controls | August 22, 2022

Johnson Controls (NYSE: JCI) announces its collaboration with 3Degrees, a firm that helps organizations around the world achieve renewable energy and decarbonization goals. The new collaboration aims to accelerate building owners' and operators' progress toward net zero by leveraging 3Degrees' large-scale environmental commodity solutions, including Renewable Energy Certificate (REC) transactions, long-term renewable energy procurement, carbon credit portfolio management, transportat...

GIATEC | September 15, 2020

Giatec, world leader in concrete testing technologies, has announced that the re-design of its award-winning flagship product SmartRock, now available to pre-order, has been re-engineered with game-changing dual-temperature monitoring capabilities for mass concrete applications. First announced in February of 2020 at World of Concrete, this latest generation of SmartRock takes concrete testing to a whole new level. In addition to an update in the sensor's design, activation, installation, an...

Construction Dive | June 01, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has shocked U.S. construction into needing to adopt new technologies to maintain social distancing and monitor jobsites remotely. Those adaptations, some construction leaders say, should have been adopted in the first place, before the pandemic forced contractors to implement them. The outbreak has also forced more connection between the site and office, as most office workers have been relegated to working from home. Shared data and digital connectivity i...

Pagabo | June 19, 2020

Pagabo has joined forces with technology brand Moodbeam to develop a wellbeing tool that looks after the mental health of workers on projects in the built environment. Moodbeam One is the world’s first wearable device, focused on capturing mood in real time through the simple pressing of a button. The Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) recently released a report, ‘Understanding Mental Health in the Building Environment‘, which includes statistics that 26% of ...