If you were a kid in the 90’s, remote control cars were all the rage. You’d charge them up for what seemed like an eternity for about 15 minutes of drive time. You built ramps to jump them off of and probably taped a Talkboy to them to spy on your siblings. Now, it seems like there’s a group of adults that just don’t want to let go of those amazing feelings of yesteryear and we’re not upset about it. A little while ago, we wrote about a perfect and fully functional 1:23.5 scale model of a Liebherr LTM 1750-9.1 mobile crane made out of Legos and now we get to show you a relatively massive remote control version of a Felbermayr crawler crane.
Read morePlanGrid is Now Available for Windows
Plangrid for Windows
Last year, we anointed Windows 10 as a game changer for construction applications and the Microsoft Surface Pro as the tablet to watch out for. Now, a popular construction app is adapting to the Windows platform.
Read moreBuild Tiny Structures with These Mini Materials
Mini Materials CMU block
Everybody gets pretty psyched about the idea of bigger and stronger construction materials and equipment, but, I’ve got news for you, smaller materials are pretty cool too. Mad 3D printing scientist Lance Abernathy recently completed a series of fingertip sized power tools that actually work, but now a different genius has created building materials that match their size.
Read more[VIDEO] This is the Exact Wrong Way to Demolish a Building
Building demolitions are dangerous and difficult, so much so that even explosives have trouble bringing down buildings. Having said that, it’s always amazing to see footage of workers and companies who totally disregard the severity of the hazards involved.
Read more“Reversible Concrete” Demolishes Structure With the Pull of a String
Rock Print
Concrete, the world’s most widely used construction material, has a giant target on its back and plenty of people want to take a piece of its pie. It’s cheap and strong, which has, so far held off many would-be competitors from getting popular. One of concrete’s major drawbacks and one of its most vulnerable areas is the fact that it’s extremely time consuming and difficult to demolish.
Read moreMice Eat Construction Drawings, Hilariously Delaying Project
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A Simple Tip to Keep the Interior of Your Construction Project Clean
Construction work is dirty, but we don’t mind. You know who does mind, though? People that have to use the building after we’re done. Preventing track out from construction vehicles on a site involves throwing down a rumble strip down or some large stone, but preventing track-IN requires a little more finesse and creativity.
Read moreOne of Concrete’s Oldest Mysteries Has Been Solved
Even though concrete is the world’s most highly used construction material, scientists have failed to understand very important fundamental aspect of the material, until now.
Read moreYou Can Now Pre-Order Microsoft’s Holographic Headset for your Construction Jobs
Microsoft HoloLens
Last May, Construction Junkie wrote about the impending release of Microsoft’s holographic headset, coined the HoloLens. Their partnership with Trimble, a construction technology manufacturer, made the technology of more specific interest to the construction industry.
Read moreTimelapse Video of the Shanghai Tower is an Incredible Work of Art
The second best of anything rarely gets anywhere near the attention that the best gets, but this may be a noted exception. Standing 2,073 feet high (632 meters), the Shanghai tower is the world’s second tallest building behind the ultra-famous Burj Khalifa. The 128 story building took 7 years to complete, finishing in September of 2015, but it seems as though it has not yet been opened to the public, for undisclosed reasons.
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