Why this brick robot could be BETTER than 3D printed concrete
3D Printing has often been highlighted as the future of everything from manufacturing to organ replacement. Belinda Carr explains why 3D printed concrete homes have just been bested.
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Top 10 Projects Completing in 2023
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Frank
- January 5, 2023
- 2023
- 308 Exhibition Street
- Abu Dhabi
- aquatics centre
- architecture
- B1M
- building
- Construction
- engineering
- Four Frankfurt
- Fred Mills
- Infrastructure
- Las Vegas Grand Prix
- MSG Sphere Las Vegas
- paris olympics
- roundup
- SeaWorld
- skybridge
- skyscraper
- The B1M
- TheB1M
- Top 10
- top projects
- toranomon azabudai
- toranomon-azabudai district
- train
- tren maya
- Tun Razak Exchange
The B1M explains why 2023 will be a big year for big construction projects.
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New York’s Most Hated Highway is Falling Apart
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Frank
- December 28, 2022
- architecture
- B1M
- BQE
- brooklyn
- brooklyn heights
- brooklyn promenade
- brooklyn-queens expressway
- building
- Cars
- Construction
- engineering
- expressway
- fail
- Fred Mills
- freight
- highway
- Infrastructure
- interstate
- manhattan
- New York
- New York City
- queens
- roadway
- robert moses
- The B1M
- TheB1M
- Traffic
- triple cantilever
- US infrastructure
- USA
The Brooklyn-Queens Expressway is crumbling and has been for a while. As a kid, whenever I would jump around in my chair or bounce around in the car, my dad would say it looked like I was driving down the BQE. So, the BQE has never been great in my lifetime and always made me […]
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Millennium Problems: Math’s Million Dollar Bounties
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Frank
- November 14, 2022
- 1 million dollar question
- Construction
- david hilbert
- david hilbert mathematician
- engineering
- history of mathematics
- infiniteexpertise
- math’s Million Dollar Bounties
- mathematician
- Mathematics
- Megaprojects
- Millennium Problems
- million dollar question hindi
- np complete
- p versus np
- p versus np problem
- p vs np example
- p vs np explained
- p vs np problem
- P vs np proof
- projects
- sideprojects
- top 7 unsolved million dollar problems
- top unsolved mysterious problems
For those not willing to roll the dice that their mathematical discoveries will be important enough to earn one of these large cash rewards, there is good news. There are a number of specific math problems for which there is a cash bounty given to the first person to solve them. The most famous of […]
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The Town That Facebook Built
How Facebook’s headquarters went from a Harvard dorm room to a vast campus and what does that mean for the future of community development?
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The Tunnel That’s Failing New York City
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Frank
- November 26, 2021
- Amtrak
- architecture
- B1M
- building
- Construction
- east side access
- engineering
- Fred Mills
- gateway program
- grand central terminal
- hudson river
- hudson tunnel
- hudson tunnel project
- Infrastructure
- New Jersey
- New York City
- northeast corridor
- NYC
- PATh
- Rail
- subway
- The B1M
- TheB1M
- trains
- tunnel boring
- tunnel construction
- underwater tunnel
- US infrastructure
This might be New York’s most important tunnel, but it’s crumbling!
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The Loophole Behind NYC’s Skinny Skyscrapers
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Frank
- November 21, 2021
- 432 park
- 432 park avenue
- architecture
- building
- Central Park
- central park tower
- Cheddar
- cheddar explains
- cities skylines
- city planning
- Construction
- Design
- Development
- empire state building
- explainer
- Infrastructure
- manhattan
- megatall skyscraper
- New York
- New York City
- nordstrom tower
- NYC
- skinny skyscraper
- skyline
- skyscraper
- skyscrapers
- supertall skyscrapers
- towers
- Urban Planning
I grew up in NYC and even I am puzzled at how these skinny residential luxury towers get past the zoning laws. Apparently, there’s a loophole that makes it all possible.
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How 9/11 Changed Skyscraper Design
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Frank
- September 9, 2021
- 9/11
- 9/11 anniversary 2020
- 9/11/01
- architecture
- Cheddar
- cheddar explains
- cities
- cities skylines
- city
- Construction
- Design
- Development
- engineering
- explainer
- freedom tower
- manhattan
- New York
- New York City
- north tower
- NYC
- one world trade center
- september 11
- skylines
- skyscraper
- skyscrapers
- south tower
- terrorism
- terrorist
- twin towers
- twin towers in movies
- Urban Planning
- world trade center
- world trade center collapse
- world trade center construction
- WTC
As we approach the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, I thank God every single day that I survived. Sometimes, being late for work can save your life. To say that the attacks changed our lives would be an epic understatement. But I do often wonder how the attacks changed the design of skyscrapers. Apparently, […]
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Did Finland Solve Nuclear Power’s Biggest Problem?
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Frank
- June 11, 2021
- architecture
- Atomic
- B1M
- building
- clean energy
- Construction
- deep geological repository
- engineering
- Finland
- Fred Mills
- Fukushima
- green energy
- Hinkley Point C
- Nuclear
- nuclear fuel
- nuclear power
- Nuclear Waste
- nuke
- ol3
- Olkiluoto
- Onkalo
- power plant
- radiation
- reactor
- sustainable
- Taishan
- The B1M
- TheB1M
Finland is building the largest and most powerful nuclear reactor in Europe and may have worked out what to do with spent nuclear fuel once and for all. The B1M reports.
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Why This 3D-Printed House Will Change The World
The impact of this 3D-printing breakthrough for construction and for the buildings we all use could be huge. The B1M explores.
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