Tag: CONSTRUCTION

The truce with the quadrocopters continues. After offering an olive branch in the form of holiday melodies, the four-rotored autonomous vehicles are shifting their efforts from intimidating displays of aerial agility to feats of carefully choreographed construction. Check out the video, after the break, of a tower being built by a team of quadrocopters in the GRASP Lab at the University of ...

Some bricklayers may soon give up their kneepads (if not their jobs) if a new machine comes into vogue. The Tiger-Stone enables two operators to lay the entire width of a brick or stone street at once, allowing two people to do in an afternoon what has taken days for many more. We hope, for bricklayers' sakes, that a new John Henry emerges -- one more successful than the last. ...

As children building sandcastles on the beach, we often dreamt of what it would be like to inhabit our creations. Perhaps designer Enrico Dini was thinking the same thing when he created his D-Shape printer, which can build full-scale buildings using sand. The gigantic printer alternates sprays of sand and binding glue, the latter of which turns the sand to rock. Slowly, the rock is built up ...

Many people would love to build an entirely "green" house. But "going green" isn't always cheap or practical. That's why we're so excited about Dow Chemical's new solar-powered shingles, which are meant to be used on asphalt-tiled roofs. According to The New York Times, the Powerhouse thin-film shingle can be installed by most roofers, and they're durable, too. You can even drop one from a roof, ...