Mastering Waterproofing: Essential Strategies for Building Envelope Integrity

Water infiltration facilitates mold growth, rots wood and cracks concrete, adversely affecting occupants’ health and causing structural issues. Waterproofing buildings during construction is vital for maximizing building longevity. If industry professionals move beyond the fundamentals, they can master weatherproofing. What essential strategies must they learn? 1. Mimicking Natural Drainage Systems A green roof comprises a […]

7 Days of News – Week 44

A ‘Tsunami of solutions’ conference, ‘Wall-as-a-service’ robotics, a roadmap to improve recycling throughout the US, and more in this week’s AEC tech headlines. Cooper Carry recently secured a Radical innovation Award (2019) for their modular hotel design. This deploys modular construction techniques to build ‘pop up’ hotels in interstitial spaces between buildings and allow them […]

Three Advancements for a Seamless Future in VR

Over the last few years, one of the biggest questions looming over the discussion of VR has been user adoption: “When will VR become a viable platform?” Development of VR hardware has advanced significantly, service platforms have been built around that hardware to deliver content to users, and yet it still seems that VR is […]