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From planning and design to field execution and asset management, this topic sits at the centre of digital change across the built environment, helping teams improve visibility, accuracy, coordination and long-term performance.
New research was conducted by engineering consultancy, Patrick Parsons, with 100 senior executives of UK construction firms which have collectively been involved in over...
A novel approach to rubber recycling could see end-of-life tyres repurposed into concrete for residential constructions asΒ new researchΒ from theΒ University of South Austr...
A first-of-its-kind study led by University of Minnesota Twin Cities researchers reveals why liquid droplets have the ability to erode hard surfaces. The discovery could...
A research team has uncovered new clues into the exotic behaviour of unconventional superconductors β devices that efficiently carry electrical current with zero resistan...
Artificial intelligence advances how scientists explore materials. Researchers from Ames Laboratory and Texas A&M University trained a machine-learning (ML) model to...
Plastic waste can be upcycled into novel materials for capturing CO2 gas, but most demonstrations have only been done in laboratories. In a recent study, scientists demon...
A team of Johns Hopkins University researchers created a shock-absorbing material that protects like a metal, but is lighter, stronger, reusable. The new foam-like materi...
Technology Innovation Institute (TII), a global research center and applied research pillar of Abu Dhabi’s Advanced Technology Research Council (ATRC), announced th...
Railway noise is unhealthy. Hundreds of millions has already been invested in noise barriers, quieter braking systems and other measures with the goal to protect at least...
A team of scientists from LanzaTech, Northwestern University and the Department of Energyβs Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed carbon capture technology that ha...
As unlikely as it sounds, a simple tooth could play a significant role in the worldβs clean energy future. Dental enamel has unique properties that make it both rigid and...
For more than 60 years, scientists have sought to understand and control the process of fusion, a quest to harness the vast amounts of energy released when nuclei in fuel...
Using a novel polymerization process, MIT chemical engineers have created a new material that is stronger than steel and as light as plastic, and can be easily manufactur...
When water boils, it converts into another phase, steam. Such transitions are commonplace in nature and frequently studied in scientific laboratories. One of particular i...
Metal alloys are materials that contain two or more atomic metal elements. They often have one primary element and smaller amounts of other elements. Scientists recently...
Protective coatings are common for many things in daily life that see a lot of use: we coat wood floors with finish; apply Teflon to the paint on cars; even use diamond c...
The Metals Company, an explorer of lower-impact battery metals from seafloor polymetallic nodules, today announced the completion of its latest offshore research campaign...
The design of new materials allows for either improved efficiency of known applications or totally new applications that were out of reach with the previously existing ma...
The climate crisis requires ramping up usage of renewable energy sources like solar and wind, but with intermittent availability, scalable energy storage is a challenge....
Researchers at the University of Bristol, UK, have developed high-performance sodium and potassium ion batteries using sustainably sourced cellulose. Scientists at theΒ Br...
A ground-breaking research project with Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) and partners to explore every aspect of the electric ecosystem is helping to deliver a com...
In its relentless pursuit of Mooreβs Law, Intel is unveiling key packaging, transistor and quantum physics breakthroughs fundamental to advancing and accelerating computi...
Researchers at the Department of Energyβs Oak Ridge, Brookhaven and Idaho national laboratories and Stony Brook UniversityΒ have developed a novel approach to gain fundame...
With the pandemic still raging, supply chain disruptions, the chip shortage, climate catastrophes, and geopolitical turbulence, it is safe to say 2021 has not been smooth...
A team of researchers from the U.S. National Science Foundation Center for Sustainable Polymers based at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities have developed a chemical...
Researchers at the Department of Energyβs Oak Ridge National Laboratory designed a novel polymer to bind and strengthen silica sand for binder jet additive manufacturing,...
Laser additive manufacturing β a form of 3D printing that builds up parts layer-by-layer by melting and resolidifying metal powders β has ushered in a renaissance for sci...
Today,Β Smart EyeΒ andΒ iMotionsΒ announced they have entered into an agreement in which Smart Eye will acquire iMotions for USD 46.6 million (SEK 400 million). As the global...
As a robotics engineer, Yasemin Ozkan-Aydin, assistant professor of electrical engineering at the University of Notre Dame, gets her inspiration from biological systems....
A new generation of electronicsΒ and optoelectronicsΒ may soon be possible byΒ controllingΒ twist anglesΒ in a particular type ofΒ bilayerΒ 2D materialΒ used in these devices,Β st...
Actinide tetrafluorides exhibit significant variations in their electronic structures despite having nearly identical crystal structures. Scientists have synthesized tetr...
The countdown has started. Ideas for innovative solutions that make a significant contribution to digitalization in shell construction can be submitted for the Josef Umda...
Construction R&D investment outperformed UK industry in first quarter of the year According to the latest ONS data R&D spending in the construction sector held fi...
The concrete world that surrounds us owes its shape and durability to chemical reactions that start when ordinary Portland cement is mixed with water. Now, MIT scientists...
Imagine an entire twenty storey concrete building which can store energy like a giant battery. Thanks to unique research from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, s...
Roadways is investing in a new research, development and innovation centre at Plus X Brighton on Lewes Road. James Bailey, Roadways chief executive said, βThis centre wil...
Heavy-duty diesel engines still power most large vehicles used in the construction, mining and transportation industries in the United States.Β Engineers are working to im...
R&D spending in the construction sector defied expectations with an 8% rise last year despite the pandemic, analysis of latest ONS data by business tax relief consult...
The heart of any computer, its central processing unit, is built using semiconductor technology, which is capable of putting billions of transistors onto a single chip. N...
Graphs β data structures that show the relationship among objects β are highly versatile. Itβs easy to imagine a graph depicting a social media networkβs web of connectio...
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