Will Africa’s $5BN Megadam Block the Nile?
The B1M explores the massive project underway in Ethiopia.
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What’s NASA’s Plan to Colonize the Moon?
NASA wants to put people on the moon by 2024 and villages of people on the moon by 2030. The question is, what will it take to reach such a lofty goal? This video is from The Unthinkable. As part of NASA’s Artemis plan, the goal is to have permanent communities on the surface of […]
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The Shocking Story of New York’s Strangest Tower
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Frank
- May 7, 2023
- architecture
- B1M
- Beaux Arts design
- building
- city landmark
- Construction
- Daniel Burnham
- empire state building
- engineering
- flatiron building
- Fred Mills
- fuller company
- grand central terminal
- Jacob Garlick
- Jeff Gural
- Nathan silverstein
- New York
- new york building
- New York City
- new york icons
- NYC
- skyscraper
- steel frame
- The B1M
- TheB1M
Engineering YouTuber The B1M uncovers the history and uncertain future New York’s iconic triangular building.
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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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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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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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What If We Automated Construction?
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Frank
- May 14, 2020
- architecture
- autodesk
- B1M
- Boston Dynamics
- building
- Construction
- Construction Robotics
- construction tech
- contech
- dezeen
- digital construction
- engineering
- ETH Zurich
- Forbes
- Fred Mills
- Future
- Hal Robotics
- Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
- leica geosystems
- Machine Learning
- predictive design
- Robot
- Scaled Robotics
- The B1M
- TheB1M
- topcon
- trimble
- Volvo Construction Equipment
- Wired
From predictive design to 3D printing and even autonomous machines on site, what could construction look like if it were automated?
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