infrastruttura no. 41 Premiums are coming down but insurers aren't sold (yet) on mass timber projects. The benefits of using mass timber as the primary structural member in new construction are well-known; some studies peg the reduction in carbon footprint at over 70 percent compared to concrete and steel construction.
infrastruttura no. 40 The global risk and claims consultancy HKA has released its sixth annual root cause analysis of global problem construction projects, concluding that a "triple design whammy" caused nearly half of them. The Sixth Annual CRUX Insight Report, Forewarned is Forearmed, reviewed 1800 projects in 106 countries valued
infrastruttura no. 38 Twelve cities on four continents are using a Google-powered AI to calculate and optimize durations for traffic lights. Seattle, Jakarta, Rio de Janeiro, Haifa, Budapest, Abu Dhabi, Bali, and Hamburg are among the participants in Google's Project Green Light, which uses data from the Google Maps platform
infrastruttura no. 37 The UK's decision to cancel the northern leg of its HS2 high-speed rail system between Manchester and Birmingham brings fresh scrutiny on the escalating construction costs of mega-projects. It's also a good opportunity to consider those metrics in comparison with the mega-project experience in the US, which