Modular construction has promised a great deal of potential to reduce waste. But what if one answer is to do more intricate construction on-site, not less? 3D printers attached to robots and drones are demonstrating that they might have the versatility to finally bring the unruly building process to heel. …
How Do You Resurrect Ancient Fossils? Try Paleontology Technology and a 3D Laser Scanner
In the fall of 2014, Leakey and her team at Turkana Basin Institute in Kenya created close likenesses of 1.8-million-year-old fossilized remains found at Kenya’s Lake Turkana Basin. They used 3D scanners and 3D printers to create replicas of the fossils of crocodiles, a prehistoric elephant, and a giant tortoise …
Visualizing the Future: Your Project is Only as Good as Its 3D Architectural Rendering
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View PostThe Devil Is in the BIM Details: Levels of Development Provide 3D-Model Clarity
The design stages of conceptual design, schematic design, and design development, for example, do not translate easily into 3D detail, nor into what construction professionals call a constructability model, complete with sequencing information and details such as where a worker stands to install a system in the best way.. Architects …
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