Sign in

Sign in

Sign up to the GCR newsletter for free, delivered direct to your inbox.

Reach 97,000 UK and global construction experts.

Innovation

Robot builds dry stone walls all by itself

A team at Switzerland’s ETH Zürich university has unveiled an autonomous excavator that can build dry stone walls from randomly shaped boulders and concrete rubble. It picks rocks from a…

Just a mallet and glue gun: US block-system builder celebrates trio of wins

Meet the start-up developing microreactors

FBR’s image of its Hadrian X bricklaying robot

Hadrian bricklaying robot upgraded for US market

Bamboo housing for the elderly would be cheaper, faster and greener

Loughborough researchers create AI-powered RAAC detection, maintenance tool

The two-ton rail vehicle went from 0-100km/h in 60 seconds, and began levitating at just over 70km/h (Image courtesy of Nevomo)

Test proves case for Europe-wide maglev rail retrofit, firm says

Spokesperson tells us the outdoor robots make lines and dots with paint (Courtesy of Ferrovial)

Ferrovial adopts site “stakeout robots” for outdoor civil work

How a temporary platform helped us upgrade a Sydney train station

The first task was to map pipework to serve 15,000 people in rural wards with no existing service (©WaterAid/Nishant Gurung)

Digital tool lets Atkins design 170km of water pipework fast for thirsty Nepal

WZMH’s Speedstac modular system is designed to replace damaged building sections (Courtesy of WZMH)

Meet the Canadian architect on a mission to rebuild Ukraine module by module

The stainless steel Impossible Statue, weighing 500kg and standing 1.5m high, is on display at Tekniska Museet, Sweden’s National Museum of Science and Technology (Photograph courtesy of Sandvik)

AI designs statue with styles of Michelangelo and Rodin

(Photograph by Martin Elsen, courtesy of Hamburg Port Authority)

Hamburg creates digital twin of Köhlbrand Bridge to stay on top of maintenance

The self-steered compactor in action. Trimble’s study found that self-steering mode led to an average 29% reduction in the time it took to do the task and an average 26.5% reduction in fuel consumed (Image courtesy of Trimble)

Self-guided compactors save time, fuel, and emissions, Trimble study shows

Graduate student Zhipeng Li and Professor Xianming Shi (Washington State University)

Researchers find way to make carbon-negative concrete

Attached to rebar or formwork and buried under the pour, the sensors send data about the concrete’s condition directly to engineers’ phones (Photograph by Prof Luna Lu)

US states line up to see how ‘talking concrete’ can cut repairs

Rebar robots team up to cut installation time in half

French firm pilots scheme to rebuild Ukraine with rubble of bombed buildings

In a claimed world-first, the technology lets designers model sound experiences virtually (Courtesy of Treble Technologies)

Tech adds sound as design parameter to 3D modelling

From left, Purdue researchers Yifu Wu, Jiansong Zhang, Jin Wei-Kocsis, Byung-Cheol Min, and Dongming Gan (Courtesy of Purdue University)

Grant funds study into human-robot collaboration in construction

A 3D-printed steel sample undergoing a tensile test to measure its mechanical properties (Photographs courtesy of ConstructAdd)

What next, printed steel? Well, yes …

1 2 3 … 18 Next »