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BIM adoption in Europe – McGraw Hill SmartMarket Report

Posted by on Apr 25, 2011 in projects | 0 comments

Business Value of...

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CAM CNC fabrication in Cascadia

Posted by on Oct 15, 2010 in CAM, CNC, cutmytimber, digital fabrication, fabrication, hundegger, K2, timber frame | 0 comments

We finally have the CutMyTimber blog live. Here it is with some great photos of a timber frame project we cut in...

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CutMyTimber : Digital Manufacturing: Paperless from FIM model to CNC mac…

Posted by on Aug 13, 2010 in cadwork, CAM, CNC, computer-aided-manufacturing, computer-numeric-control, cutmytimber, design2machine, design2production, fabrication, high-performance building, hundegger, ideabuilder | 0 comments

Here is a great example or integrated design and manufacturing. The video is only 12 minutes long and is a great case study for real integrated project...

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Is Modular Construction a greener way to build?

Posted by on Aug 4, 2010 in building, green, modular, prefab, yale green | 0 comments

Yale and the University of Virginia released some preliminary findings and expect to release a full report later this year. Although I look forward to reading the full report I still have difficulty understanding why this hasn’t been studied before? In the era of total-cost-of-ownership and environmental footprint why hasn’t the environmental impact of different construction methods received more R&D dollars?

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