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. 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
infrastruttura no. 35 Fifty-seven percent of the world thinks governments are underinvesting in infrastructure. Together with Ipsos, the Global Infrastructure Investor Association recently surveyed 23,000 adults in 31 countries on their views of governments' levels of investment in infrastructure, as well as the quality of their country's assets in
infrastruttura no. 27 Not even the massive crowds taking mass transit to Taylor Swift's Eras tour are enough to plug the holes in America's transportation agency budgets. My kids aren't Swifties (not yet, anyway) so we didn't take the train to the Meadowlands last month for her Eras tour. But