Redshift
Exploring the Future of Making
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Read ArticleHow Lean Construction Methods Gave BAM Ireland Its Day in Cork
BAM Ireland is using lean construction methods and a “right-first-time” mentality for a massive $173 million federal courthouse project—saving time, money, and the planet.
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Read ArticleWill a Smarter Social Safety Net Help People Survive the Age of Automation?
How can workers reinvent themselves to stay relevant—and employable—in the new age of automation? Autodesk CEO Andrew Anagnost believes “universal basic support” is a good place to start.
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Read ArticleJill Kurtz Speaks “Engineer” to Help Bring Sustainable Design to Architecture
Learn how Jill Kurtz is using technology—and a passion to leave the world a better place than how she found it—to help bring sustainable design to architecture.
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Read Article6 Bold Adaptive-Reuse Projects Give Broken-Down Buildings New Leases on Life
Adaptive reuse is on the rise, with many existing abandoned buildings being transformed into hotels, homes, and offices. Discover six examples of buildings getting new leases on life.
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Read Article6 Tips for Making Green Luxury Homes the Showcase for Sustainability
Green building’s materials and methods can come at a high cost—so maybe luxury homes are a perfect match? Here are 6 ways to sell green design to clients who have the cash.
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Read ArticleHow Landscape Architecture Is Growing BIM Roots for Better Collaboration
Landscape architecture is planting the seeds for a better built environment by adopting BIM—an industry-standard technology that connects disciplines and levels the field.
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Read ArticleShape-Memory Alloys Bid Adieu to Old-School Orthodontics
Orthodontic braces have just moved into the 21st century thanks to shape-memory alloys and Multiple Memory Material: a highly customizable “smart wire” that can cut treatment time in half.
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Read ArticleHow the Injection-Molding Process Helps Create Pretty Much Everything
The injection-molding process plays a key role in creating tons of products you use daily—everything from hair combs to car seats. Watch the video to learn the history of this process.
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Read ArticleThis Bricklaying Robot Is Changing the Future of Construction
Human workers were laying brick as early as 7000 BC; for this millennium, Australian company FBR has created a bricklaying robot to do the job better, safer, and more efficiently.
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Read Article3 Ways Heroic Civil Engineers Can Save the World Through Resilience Planning
Disasters are unpredictable, but civil engineers are the unsung heroes protecting the built world through resilience planning. Here are three trends influencing this global movement.
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Read ArticleIt Takes a Village to Create Gender Equality in the Construction Industry
It’s easy to say you want gender equality in the construction industry; it’s another thing to achieve it. Here’s how focusing on policy, while increasing opportunity, can balance the scales.
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Read ArticleTo Fix Its Aging Infrastructure, the US Could Learn a Thing or Two From Chicago
The American Society of Civil Engineers has rated US infrastructure a D+, but could Chicago’s strategy to preserve aging transit get the rest of the country back on track?
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Read ArticleThis Is What Trillions in Global-Infrastructure Investment Look Like [Infographic]
Based on a new report by Statista, this infographic reveals a jaw-dropping demand for global infrastructure to support the world’s population between now and 2050.
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Read Article7 Innovations for Pothole Patches That Promise to Smooth Streets—for Good
See how companies and organizations are going after one of the world’s biggest infrastructure evils: potholes. These 7 pothole-patch solutions are attacking the problem through technology.
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Read Article5 Industrial Innovations Taking Large-Scale Manufacturers Into the Future
Change is hard—especially in manufacturing, a notoriously inflexible industry. Discover 5 industrial innovations these large-scale manufacturers are implementing to modernize their businesses.
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Read ArticleHow Engineering Art and Creativity Can Light Up New Business
LERA+ helps artists combine engineering and art to bring their visions to life. Watch artist James Clar and the LERA+ team discuss software they created for his unique light-based sculpture.
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Read ArticleAI in Construction Can Streamline Tasks, Improve Insights—Even Save Lives
Benefits of AI in construction range from streamlined tasks to safer jobsites. Watch this video to learn how Autodesk is using AI in software to manage information and improve processes.
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Read ArticleConstruction Giant Skanska Sweden Has Big Plans to Go Completely Digital by 2023
Giant construction firms are slow to change—even when adopting the very technology that will ensure their future. Sweden’s Skanska is bucking this trend with a digital overhaul by 2023.
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Read ArticleThis Spine Protector Worn as a Second Skin Makes Extreme Sports Extremely Safer
Helmets, kneepads, gloves—there are so many precautions to protect the body while playing sports, but what about the spine? One product from a European safety company is way ahead of you.
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Read ArticleTim-ber! Builders Herald the Coming Wave of Mass-Timber Construction
Guns, germs, steel . . . and wood? Mass-timber construction is poised to elevate the way things are built—literally—with taller, stronger, carbon-sequestering structures.
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