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How do we prepare for a future that is both entirely certain and completely unknowable?
We can’t completely predict climate change, in part because it depends on how we react to it.
Do the two climate-change disciplines need to talk to each other more?
Corporates must take every chance to fix issues before it is too late, says WSP’s Michael Mondshine.
Pneumatic tube, drones, robot bins … what will it take to improve efficiency?
3D archive brings threatened heritage to a wider audience.
The latest digital modelling technologies allow us to step inside building designs and conceive of places we never thought possible.
Transport hubs play a key role in their communities as places to gather, arrive and depart. How they can best be used for development.
WSP’s 3D model incorporates infrastructure and covers 450 square miles.
The use of timber in buildings can have its advantages such as smaller carbon footprint and eco-aesthetic. But will timber become the material of the future?
What’s different about geopolymer concrete is that it uses no Portland cement at all, and therefore the “cement” or binding element of the concrete is almost carbon-neutral.
New-generation timber-framed buildings have properties that make them ideal for surviving earthquakes.
Timber could be an alternative to concrete when building high. Being lighter than concrete, it also speeds up the construction time.
Smart Dynamic Casting could be faster than 3D-printing concrete, with the creation of columns at a rate of 1m/hour.
One World Trade Center (2013), 432 Park (2015) and 56 Leonard (2016) were all made of high-strength concrete.
Completely new materials may not come along very often, but scientists are remixing old ones — and it’s changing the shape of our cities.
How do we recycle a building or materials in a way that we could really benefit from? Three WSP engineers responds to this question with no constraints.
From Montreal’s Habitat 67 to Tokyo’s Nakagin Capsule Tower, modular architecture has taken different shapes in all parts of the world.
Laing O’Rourke and WSP have designed and built a Liverpool children’s hospital out of 15,000 pre-assembled elements.
Central to the modular debate is the issue of how mass-produced elements can be made to work with creative architecture. One area that might offer a solution is 3D printing.
Trobe Tower in Melbourne was constructed almost twice as fast thanks to Hickory’s system, which uses hot-rolled steel box frames incorporating an engineered concrete floor.
There are a lot of fears around modular construction – from aesthetics to cost. But there are solutions to those issues.
Modular is finally becoming reality, thanks to advances in computer modelling, 3D printing and robotics.