Tag: Concrete
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Building with Inflatable Concrete Formwork and Other News
Here are our industrialized construction updates from February 2023. Automatic Construction, an NYC startup, was one of eight 2022 Construction Startup Competition winners. Alex Bell, the co-founder, presented the company’s concrete building solution at the competition’s Pitchday in October 2022. Bell’s and Tyler Robins’s company produces inflatable concrete formwork in a factory and transports it to the building…
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Reinventing Concrete Construction with 3D Printing
In this episode of the AEC Business podcast, Aarni Heiskanen interviews Fernando De los Rios, CEO and co-founder of Hyperion Robotics. The Finnish technology company was formed by experts in engineering, construction, 3D printing, and robotics. Their mission is to bring automation and sustainable practices to the construction industry. Fernando has been building start-ups to…
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Global Admixture Manufacturer Partially Acquires a Concrete Sensor Solution
Vancouver, Canada, based Kryton International Inc. acquired 30% of the fast-growing concrete sensor company Sensohive. The young IoT company Sensohive Technologies based in Denmark launched its Maturix™solution two years ago. It has been adopted by leading contractors and precast producers like PASCHAL GmbH, VolkerWessels, Heidelberg Cement, NCC, Skanska, and Kruse Smith, among others. The monitoring…
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AI Helps Deliver Better Concrete More Efficiently
The construction industry uses 13 billion cubic meters of ready-mix concrete every year. The logistics and quality assurance of this concrete depend on legacy technologies that are no longer sufficient for today’s needs. To address this, Caidio is introducing AI-based solutions to help the supply chain deliver better quality concrete more efficiently. The Challenges of…
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IoT: Take Guessing Out of the Concrete Drying Process
Flooring, tiling, or painting on a concrete surface that is insufficiently dry can end up being a disaster. An experimental project recently used IoT sensors and AI to determine when it is safe to start finishing concrete surfaces. Haste and Imperfect Conditions Lead to Failure To successfully first cure and then dry concrete requires specific…
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Truckast – Logistics and Commerce for Concrete
This is my interview with Kurt Kratchman, CEO of TRUCKAST, Inc. Can you tell a little bit about your company’s background? We are a team of veteran software developers and entrepreneurs passionate about construction, logistics, economic development, collaboration and productivity tools and technology innovation. When cloud, mobile and other open source software tools came together, we realized we could…