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Hey, Chat GPT, Finish My Building (Fri, 01 Dec 2023)
Pictures of billboards on an unfinished building for only 9 days in June in Antwerp, Belgium. It was long enough to go viral. The advertising was created for IMPACT, a Belgian employment agency that specializes in construction and technical jobs. To the AI community, it was an unfair dig. For everyone who is worried about losing their jobs to AI, it was a rallying point. Image: IMPACT. The work of an impish employment agency specializing in construction tech jobs in Belgium, of all places, s...
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Matterport Announces One-Click CAD Output (Fri, 10 Nov 2023)
Matterport, perhaps the leading independent, professional LiDAR scanner for interiors of buildings, has announced that it will now output a CAD file. This ability will be available early in 2024, according to the company’s press release. Previously, Matterport  only output CAD files if customers bought its building information modeling (BIM) file add-on, which the company now admits “added unnecessary time and cost to a project.” Now, any Matterport user can create ...
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Texas & Louisiana Construction News

Developer NET Power Delays $1B Texas Net-Zero Power Plant Start (Sat, 18 Nov 2023)
Firm execs cited “extensive lead times across critical components” in late 2027 start of Zachry-built scaled-up project in Texas Permian energy region, In mid-November earnings call.
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Federal Suit Details Claimed Fraud in Failed $7.5B Clean Coal Project (Wed, 15 Nov 2023)
In just unsealed whistleblower complaint, former site construction manager says utility owner of over-budget Kemper project in Mississippi defrauded the U.S. Energy Dept. of hundreds of millions in funding.
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Today in Energy

Global CO2 emissions rise through 2050 in most IEO2023 cases (Thu, 30 Nov 2023)
We project that global energy-related CO2 emissions from consumption of coal, liquid fuels, and natural gas will increase over the next 30 years across most of the cases we analyzed in our International Energy Outlook 2023 (IEO2023).
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Coal generation decreased in 2022, but overall U.S. emissions increased (Wed, 29 Nov 2023)
U.S. coal-related CO2 emissions decreased by 7%, or 68 million metric tons (MMmt), in 2022 relative to 2021. This decrease was largely due to an 8% decline in coal-fired power generation because of retiring coal-fired generating capacity. Changes in electricity generation sources decreased the carbon intensity of electricity by 4% in the United States in 2022 as growing natural gas-fired and renewable energy resources and a coal supply shortage contributed to the lower coal-related emissions.
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Business

Former Garden Oaks Sears to be demolished, transformed into new development (Sun, 26 Nov 2023 21:53:43 UT)
The 11-acre tract includes the vacant department store and a former auto repair center.
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Humanoid robots are here, but they're a little awkward. Do we really need them? (Sun, 5 Nov 2023 19:31:52 UT)
Most of the current prototypes are clumsy and impractical. That hasn’t stopped a handful of startups from keeping at it.
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