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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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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How to Build On Mars
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Frank
- March 24, 2020
- 3d printing
- architectural visualization
- architecture
- B1M
- building
- building on mars
- cgi
- CGI software
- colonising mars
- Construction
- Design
- design museum
- eckersley o' callaghan
- Elon Musk
- engineering
- epic games
- european space agency
- Fred Mills
- Future
- hassell
- lightfield london
- living on mars
- Mars
- mars habitat
- moving to mars
- NASA
- Robotics
- Robots
- science
- Space
- Space Exploration
- space travel
- SpaceX
- The B1M
- TheB1M
- Unity
- unreal engine
- xavier de kestelier
Swarms of robots 3D printing from martian dust, cutting-edge engineering, NASA-recognised designs and inflatable pods that feel just like home. This is how we build on Mars. Read the full story on this video, including images and useful links, here – https://www.theb1m.com/video/this-is-how-we-build-on-mars
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How PCL is Breaking Ground with IoT in the Construction Industry
In this episode of IoT Transformers, listen to Chris Palmer, manager of advanced technology services at PCL Construction to see how IoT will change construction. In the past few years, PCL has taken the construction industry by storm with groundbreaking disruption in the “least transformed” industry. Learn about their journey, the keys to their success […]
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Digital Transformation of Construction Sites with Robotics
TechCrunch takes a closer look at Barcelona-based Scaled Robotics. The company built a Wall-E doppelgänger to navigate around and build maps of construction sites by fusing images, video, and data captured by its robots.
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