Smart Building

Large-scale concrete slab construction has long relied on manual finishing labor, a physically demanding and skill-dependent process vulnerable to inconsistent results across expansive surfaces. Workers wielding power trowels and screeds spend extended shifts applying uniform pressure and achieving flatness...

The Global partnership agreement combines Samsung C&T’s EPC expertise with Siemens’ leading capabilities in digitalization, electrification, and automation Collaboration to focus initially on six landmark infrastructure projects in Saudi Arabia, Thailand, and Canada Joint efforts to deliver differentiated,...

The American Arbitration Association, which is the International Centre for Dispute Resolution, has gone ahead and released a new artificial intelligence tool for construction, the organization went on to announce on November 3, 2025. The new artificial intelligence tool for...

The construction industry confronts an uncomfortable truth: traditional concrete production, dominated by ordinary Portland cement manufacturing, generates approximately two billion tons of carbon dioxide annually, representing roughly 8 percent of global emissions. Each ton of Portland cement produced releases...

Global housing demand escalates at unprecedented rates, driven by population growth, urbanization, and evolving living standards. The World Economic Forum estimates humanity requires two billion new homes over the next 80 years, while housing shortages plague even wealthy nations...

The construction industry confronts mounting pressures that threaten project viability and contractor profitability. Labor shortages across skilled trades reach critical levels in many markets, with aging workforce demographics and declining interest among younger generations creating talent gaps that conventional...

For most of architectural history, buildings served their environmental function despite rather than in harmony with natural systems. Construction consumed vast material resources. Manufacturing processes generated substantial emissions and waste. Completed structures often proved thermally inefficient, requiring continuous mechanical...