The Importance of Choosing Sustainable Materials in Industrial Construction
It is no secret that the cost of construction has gone up significantly in recent years. Material increases and labor shortages are just...
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Julianna Widlund
- Mar 27
On the Brink: 3 Coastal Cities Fighting to Avoid a Sinking Fate
I know you probably don't want to read another blog discussing the detrimental effects of climate change yet again, but the reality is...
Julianna Widlund
- Feb 27
Singapore's First Country-Scale Digital Twin and The Future of Digital Open Data
It's no secret that the construction industry has been slower than many other industries to adopt digital technology, but there is...
Structures Insider
- Jan 30
10 Terminologies and Definitions you need to know about ESG in 2023
What is ESG? Environmental, social, and corporate governance is an approach to evaluating the extent to which a corporation works on...
Max Rodriguez
- Nov 20, 2022
Top 4 Key Drivers of Sustainable Development in the Construction Industry
Summary Top 4 Key Drivers of Sustainable Development in the Construction Industry and Built environment. Climate Change Equity Health and...
Structures Insider
- Oct 10, 2022
Identifying Sustainable Opportunities in the Construction Industry
SUMMARY 1. The type of project: buildings vs other civil engineering infrastructure 2. The procurement route of a project 3. The client’s...
Structures Insider
- Oct 3, 2022
Key Principles of Asset Management in Infrastructure
Definition of Asset Management: “systematic and coordinated activities and practices through which an organization optimally and...
Structures Insider
- Sep 26, 2022
Challenges and Benefits of implementing sustainability on a Project and Organisation level
Quick Take Implementing sustainability on a project level could be verified by acquiring a building certificate such as LEED or BREEAM...
Julianna Widlund
- Jul 25, 2022
Mass Timber Construction: Friend or Foe?
It should come as no shock to the engineering community that mass timber has grown increasingly popular among building materials
Theo Pascal
- Jun 6, 2022
Green Hydrogen current and projected production costs
Determining the Cost of Green Hydrogen Studies have found that there is significant variation in the cost of electrolyzer systems,...
Theo Pascal
- May 16, 2022
Overview of Grey, Blue, and Green Hydrogen
Introduction Hydrogen is the most abundant element on Earth and is mainly found in water and organic compounds (Dawood, et al., 2020)....
2050 Materials
- Apr 13, 2022
Environmental regulations in construction — What’s changing?
by 2050 Materials Building regulations are crucial drivers for change. Over the last decade, regulatory compliance was concentrated on...
2050 Materials
- Apr 11, 2022
Redefining “value” in the value engineering process
by 2050 Materials If you have ever been involved in a construction project from inception to completion, you probably heard the term “VE”...
2050 Materials
- Apr 6, 2022
Designing buildings within Planetary Boundaries
by 2050 Materials A lot of the discussion regarding the impact of humanity on the environment these days revolves around carbon. There’s...
2050 Materials
- Apr 4, 2022
Declare: The building product nutrition label
by 2050 Materials International Living Future Institute The International Living Future Institute (ILFI) is a non-profit organization on...
Max Rodriguez
- Mar 15, 2022
The Rebirth of Earth: Low embodied-energy construction method
Introduction In concern with embodied energy in construction, I attempt to find an ecologically friendly material. Through researching...
Structures Insider
- Jan 24, 2022
Wind Energy Overview Report 2022
Introduction Energy sources from wind use the kinetic energy created by air in motion to produce electricity through the various turbines...
Structures Insider
- Dec 15, 2021
Smart motorways and there contribute to the sustainability of the UK transport system.
Smart motorways throughout England as defined by Highways England, have the objective to deliver more efficient motorways through the...
Theo Pascal
- Dec 7, 2021
Challenges and solutions in the delivery of Humanitarian Relief
The ultimate goal of humanitarian logistics (HL) is to deliver the right supplies in the right quantities to the right location at the...
Structures Insider
- Nov 24, 2021
The potential roles of electric Autonomous Vehicles in the Transportation sector
The rise of technologies such as robotics and artificial intelligence have a substantial influence on our daily lifestyle with the...
Structures Insider
- Sep 13, 2021
ISO 1040 Life Cycle Assessment framework - Explained
As defined by ISO 14040 As defined by ISO 14040 an LCA analysis should consist of the phases illustrated in Figure above. A partial LCA...
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