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Water Management System DD-WMS 100 Make quick work of dust and slurry Plano, Texas –  2018 —Keeping the jobsite clean, maintaining a constant pressurized water supply, and disposing of slurry are time consuming.  In fact, it’s estimated that professionals spend almost an hour per day suppling water and cleaning slurry while diamond coring.  With the introduction of the DD-WMS 100 Water Management System these tasks become a thing of the past. Large wheels and convenient handle make the DD-WMS 100 easy to transport and move around the jobsite.  Just fill the water tank and be ready to start coring when...

Sustainable construction Our urban future The stories of buildings can best be told by the people who planned, built or designed them. Three BASF customers from Europe, North America and Asia explain how they see sustainability in building projects around the globe. For Jean-Denis Mege, the people who live in a building are the key to its sustainability. He works for the social housing company Foyer Rémois in Reims, France. He believes building sustainably means that housing must remain affordable without losing sight of environmental considerations and the quality of living conditions. In New York City, Michael L. Gentoso and...

CasaE – Brazil’s first energy efficient house How do we meet rising demand for urban housing without it costing the earth? CasaE, Brazil’s first energy efficient house built by BASF and partners, shows some solutions. By 2050, around 75% of the world’s population will live in cities. How do we meet rising demand for urban housing without it costing the earth? This is a challenge facing countries everywhere. Built in the business district of São Paulo, the CasaE is Brazil’s first energy efficient house. BASF and partners have built CasaE to showcase to architects, builders and the general public in...

Buildings as powerhouses   Sustainable building is the buzzword among architects. Yet for most of us, living in houses built decades ago, reality remains far from the futuristic designs – our homes gobble up energy, are often wasteful and inefficient. But that may be about to change, as business and academia pull together to forge a new urban landscape, where buildings become the powerhouses of the future. Ask leading scientists at the cutting edge of environmental technology to describe the house of the future and they will take you to a fascinating world, where material and biological science operate in...

A jobsite dashboard is helping Clark Construction take the drudgery out of managing punch lists Clark Construction now uses Turnover Vision on all of its projects. The algorithm driving this mobile app also helps the contractor anticipate problems. Image: Clark Construction Last year, Clark Construction started deploying Turnover Vision, an interactive punch list management application developed by the firm’s Research & Development Group, which combines punch list and scheduling data to optimize a project’s work plan. Turnover Vision analyzes big data from a project’s punch list and organizes them into interactive heat maps and graphs. Using simplified architectural floor plans...