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R&D facilities for electric vehicle production are now the manufacturing sector's hottest commodity

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manufacturing and battery plants, which require a large footprint. So automakers are pouring money into research and development facilities. development could lead to a golden era of highly technical corporate design for car manufacturers. Last year, skyrocketing demand sent a record $128 billion into investments for E.V.

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University of Illinois launches center for autonomous construction research

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The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Grainger College of Engineering has announced the creation of a research and development center dedicated to autonomous construction technologies.

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5 things developers should know about mass timber

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5 things developers should know about mass timber 0 qpurcell Thu, 02/15/2024 - 13:36 Mass Timber Gensler's Erik Barth, architect and regional design resilience leader, shares considerations for developers when looking at mass timber solutions. Erik Barth Regulations Mass Timber Wood The Changing Built Environment The U.N.’s

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Shigeru Ban's timber-skeleton Tamedia building left engineers "incredulous"

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Its prefabricated frame is made of 2,000 cubic metres of glued-laminated timber , held together entirely without screws or nails using a novel structural system developed by Japanese architect Ban in collaboration with Swiss engineer Hermann Blumer. Wooden pegs used to be employed to fix the bearings in place on rotating metal axles."

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How One of the World’s Best Engineering and Fabrication Firms Designs With Architects

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Zahner is one of the world’s best-known engineering and fabrication firms. With its own line of pre-engineered designs, the firm rose to prominence from its Kansas City headquarters over the last century. Zahner has developed advanced metal surfaces and systems for both functional and ornamental architectural forms.

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Maryland's Key Bridge Response - A Story of Resolve, Achievement and Reverse Engineering

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Other key parties involved in the recovery are the Army Corps of Engineers and the Coast Guard. To get a detailed look at the submerged wreckage, officials used a sonar imaging tool called Echoscope —the “world’s highest resolution real-time 3D/4D sonar” technology, according to its manufacturer , CODA Octopus Group. Coast Guard.

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How to Specify Engineered Wood Products

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How to Specify Engineered Wood Products 1 kcichowicz Thu, 06/22/2023 - 10:58 APA – The Engineered Wood Association offers guidance on the properties and applications of engineered wood products and how to correctly specify them in accordance with the IBC. Building codes require wood structural panels for application in the U.S.