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Hempcrete blocks and panels could be produced in the U.S. for the first time since 1937 thanks to a facility being built in the Lower Sioux Indian Community in Minnesota. 

Some of the technologies being developed with the grants, ranging from subsurface sensors to microtunneling robots, could have construction applications beyond grid projects.

Group's new guide highlights best practices to enhance connections that would lower rates of building carbon emissions.

Tech firms announce data sharing agreement at recent user conferences that includes support for IFCs and better application programming interfaces.

Mongolian-American entrepreneur aims to transform US mid-rise urban development.

Applicants can include transit authorities, state and local government agencies, academic institutions and other organizations.

The construction tech firm announced a slate of new and planned offerings, including an AI-based assistant still under development.

A different prefabrication and modular construction sector came out of the pandemic. Ambitious startups such as Skender Manufacturing and Katerra folded in the last few years, while one major health care designer lamented an industrywide pullback that saw many of the suppliers they work with cut back on custom, by-project fabrication to standardize on products like headwalls and bathroom pods.

Demands from clients and labor shortages are forcing some contractors into other methods of creating building assemblies, driving new investments in prefabrication and modular construction techniques.

Structural materials have not changed all that much over the years, but a Florida company offers a new alternative.