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Architecture and Construction in 2025 Explore how architecture and construction work together in 2025. Learn about roles, global trends, tech tools, and career paths that unite design and building. How Design and Building Unite Across Industries, Roles & Regions What Is the Relationship Between Architecture and Construction? Architecture and construction are two sides of the […]

CHRYSO Uses its Expertise to Improve the Performance of Green Concrete

(© Solidia) This week, construction chemicals firm CHRYSO announced its partnership with Solidia Technologies, an inventor of technology for green cement and concrete. Together, the two plan to improve the sustainability performance and material properties of Solida’s ultra-low CO2 concrete. Solidia’s technologies, which are used for non-reinforced concrete elements, are based on a cement chemistry […]

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COVID-19 Will Continue to Impact Projects and Supply Chains in 2021

There has been a lot of talk about how builders have felt the impacts of COVID-19 and how they have changed work practices to stay safe. But there’s been less attention given to the disruption caused by the pandemic to the global supply chain that delivers the products and materials they need to complete their […]

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Closing the Loop: How to Gain a Competitive Edge with The Circular Economy

The “take-make-use-dispose” approach to construction materials is leaving a mountain of a legacy around the world. And that mountain continues to grow. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates that the amount of construction and demolition waste (CDW) produced annually in the United States increased from 170 million tons in 2005 to more than 569 million tons in 2017, […]