New Humber hospital features innovative concrete

An aggressive schedule, a targeted 30 per cent recycled content in the cement and massive concrete pours including a continuous 13-hour one are just some of the construction dynamics of the 1.6-million-square-foot Humber River Regional Hospital. Located on an infill site directly across from the Ontario Ministry of Transportation headquarters on Keele Street in Toronto, […]

October eurozone output was awful, but there are positive signs

Dresden’s Carola Bridge collapsed in September last year, raising hopes of an infrastructure bonanza in Germany. It has yet to materialise (Courtesy of State Capital Dresden) First, the bad news: Last month, eurozone construction saw its steepest drop in activity since March. In Germany, the sector was described as “sinking deeper into the proverbial swamp” […]

OpenAI’s Sam Altman announces AI data center expansion plans

The afternoon sun was so hot that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman traded his usual crewneck sweater for a T-shirt on the last legs of a Tuesday visit to the massive Stargate artificial intelligence data center complex that will power the future of ChatGPT. OpenAI announced Tuesday that its flagship AI data center in Texas will […]