McKinsey Report: Procurement must play key role in decarbonizing construction
Chief procurement officers (CPOs) will be the main drivers for improving the sustainability of construction projects and overall profitability 19 April 2023: The latest research from McKinsey & Company (McKinsey) emphasizes that procurement in construction companies will play a pivotal role as they navigate uncertainty and aim for sustainability targets. The insights come as McKinsey publishes its latest report: The strategic era of procurement in construction. 40 to 70 percent of a constr...
New USGS-FEMA Study Highlights Economic Earthquake Risk in the United States
Sources/Usage: Public Domain. Map showing distribution of average annualized earthquake loss by region. The high concentration of loss in California and the West Coast is consistent with that region’s high seismic hazard, significant population, and building exposure. SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Earthquakes cost the nation an estimated $14.7 billion annually in building damage and associated losses according to a new report released jointly today by the U.S. Geological Survey an...
American Concrete Institute Releases 2023 ACI Collection of Concrete Codes, Specifications, and Practices
FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. — The American Concrete Institute has released the 2023 ACI Collection of Concrete Codes, Specifications, and Practices. The ACI Collection is the most comprehensive and largest single source of information on concrete design, construction, materials, and repair, with over 50 codes and specifications and more than 200 practices – including all guides, reports, and education publications. The ACI Collection features ACI 318 “Building Code Requirements for Structural...
A Home With Walls Like Swiss Cheese?
Nikhilesh Chawla, the Ransburg Professor of Materials Engineering at Purdue University, and Rahul Franklin, a graduate research assistant in materials engineering, prepare to examine a honeybee comb sample with a 3D X-ray microscope at the Flex Lab in Discovery Park. Examining the combs has uncovered new techniques used by the bees that could translate into new building concepts. (Purdue University photo/Dave Mason) Advanced honeycomb construction bee-ing researched for human buildings...
Premier to Transform Historic Church into Luxury Residences
DALLAS – Premier, an end-to-end architecture, design, procurement, and project management and development firm, is pleased to announce the firm will lead the interior design and procurement services for the adaptive reuse of St. Lucy’s Church, a historic Catholic church in Jersey City, NJ. The Dallas-based team will collaborate with Claremont Development and Michael Graves Architecture & Design on this high-rise, multifamily development. Situated in the heart of Jersey City, this 23-story p...
The New Moving Forward Report is Now Available!
The National Institute of Building Sciences Consultative Council has issued its 2022 Moving Forward Report, looking closely at the relationship between the climate emergency and the built environment, and charting a path toward decarbonization of U.S. buildings. The building sector is a significant contributor to carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions, both internationally and domestically. Mitigating the effects of these emissions by decarbonizing the building sector will take an...
Project Will Test Regional Wood in High-Tech Timber Construction Products
The goal behind the UNH Cooperative Extension project funded by the Future Forest Economy Initiative is to increase demand for cross-laminated timber panels created using spruce-pine-fir lumber from the Northern Forest so that more mass-timber projects like the one pictured will use local wood. Credit: Kure Creative/H+O Structural Engineering photo. UNH Project Aims to Access New Market for Wood from Northern Forest States As the trend toward mass timber construction grows, Northern...
American Concrete Institute Introduces New Guide for Shotcrete
FARMINGTON HILLS, MI: (March 16, 2023) The American Concrete Institute, through the work of ACI Committee 506, has released ACI PRC-506-22: Shotcrete—Guide. The newly introduced guide provides information on materials and properties of both dry-mix and wet-mix shotcrete and covers most facets of the shotcrete process including application procedures, equipment requirements, and responsibilities of the shotcrete crew. As a companion document to ACI SPEC-506.2: Specification for Shotcrete, the...
bSI Technical Report: BIM & Building Energy Modelling (BEM) Workflows and Data Interoperability
Almost 40 percent of total global CO₂ emissions are caused by various contributors in the built asset industry, a majority of which (80%) comes from existing buildings with poorly designed, constructed, and/or maintained envelopes. In the EU alone, 36% of total greenhouse gas emissions come from buildings, a majority of which (75%) are not designed to effective energy efficiency standards. buildingSMART International (bSI) is convinced that digital ways of working combined with open standards an...
Circular Economy of Cement Could Be Worth €110 Billion by 2050, McKinsey & Company Report Shows
A circular economy of concrete and cement could produce €110 billion in net value and avoid or mitigate two billion tons of CO₂ emissions by 2050, according to a new McKinsey & Company report. This will be driven by capture, storage and usage of CO2 from cement and concrete production, re-use of energy from waste material and recirculation of materials and minerals across the built environment. The Circular cement value chain: Sustainable and profitable report projects that adoption of circul...
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