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PR Newswire | May 26, 2023

Harvard Jolly Architecture, a Florida-based, full-service architectural firm specializing in educational, municipal, and healthcare facilities, announced today a new partnership with PBK, a nationally-acclaimed architectural planning and design firm. The joint capabilities of PBK and Harvard Jolly will allow the firm to meet the needs of a growing client base in the region by leveraging both the national exposure, experience, and evidence-based design practices of PBK and the re...

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...

Asharq Al-Awsat | January 21, 2020

Engineers at the US Colorado University have developed a new method to make sustainable construction materials partially composed of living cells. We already use biological materials in our buildings, like wood, but those materials are no longer alive. So, we're asking: Why can't we keep them alive and have that biology do something beneficial, too? said a researcher at the Department of Civil Engineering. The scientists believe that their ability to keep their bacteria alive with a high...

EC&M | January 16, 2020

Integrated building information modeling is key for effective information management and can help contractors move into the revenue-generating areas of modular construction and aftermarket services. It also represents an opportunity for smaller construction businesses to compete against industry leaders, whose legacy enterprise resource planning systems may not be able to keep up with the times. The objective of BIM is to provide better information management. However, the term can be misleading...