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GRBJ | February 17, 2020

Prefabrication, also referred to as off-site construction, allows various building elements to be manufactured and assembled in a factory and then erected on a construction site. Anything from light fixtures to whole multilevel exterior walls can be prefabricated. Although this process is not new to construction, the way prefabrication is being used has drastically streamlined the building process. The facade at Western Michigan University’s Arcadia Flats serves as an example. Triangle Ass...

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Cigniti | November 09, 2020

Cigniti Technologies, a global leader in independent quality engineering and software testing services, is now a strategic Quality Engineering panel vendor for Toyota Motor Corporation Australia (TMCA), a subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation, to help accelerate its Quality & Digital transformation journey over the next 3 years.Speaking on the occasion, Srikanth Chakkilam, CEO at Cigniti Technologies, said: “It is exciting and a proud moment for all of us at Cigniti to serve a l...

PBC Today | February 28, 2020

Sustainability is a key driver to digital transformation in the environment. Alexandra Bolton, executive director of the Centre for Digital Built Britain CDBB and a member of the Construction Innovation Hub senior management team, considers the challenge, the opportunity and the potential prize. Addressing the challenges of the climate emergency is a pressing agenda for us all. The 2018 UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCC Special Report brought focus to the urgent need to keep glob...

ArchDaily | June 29, 2020

Architects don’t make buildings. Architects make drawings of buildings. But of course, someone has to make the building. The construction industry is one of the largest economic sectors and we all interact with the built environment on a daily basis, but the actual work of getting a building from drawing to structure has barely evolved over the decades. While the rest of the world has moved into Industry 4.0, the construction sector has not kept pace. Architecture has begun to embrace some...