China’s new Beijing Daxing International Airport -World’s largest airport terminal, spanning 7.5 million square feet

Posted on March 28, 2021March 29, 2021 by IE Article Contributor

Beijing's new Daxing International Airport (PKX) is now the world's largest airport terminal, spanning 7.5 million square feet—the equivalent of 98 soccer fields. With the runways and annexes, its whole surface covers 18 square miles. Beijing Daxing International Airport, is a large international airport located on the border of Beijing and Langfang, Hebei Province. The airport is Beijing's second international airport, after Beijing Capital International Airport.It has been nicknamed "the s...

‘Corium brick’ – that combines the natural beauty of genuine brick with cost effective fast track installation

Posted on March 7, 2021March 7, 2021 by IE Article Contributor

Corium is a unique brick cladding system that combines the natural beauty of genuine brick with cost effective fast track installation. It offers a facing brick finish for projects where a façade system is required, rather than traditional masonry. The Corium system comprises brick slip tiles specially manufactured to fix/clip mechanically to a steel backing section. The mechanical feature of ‘clipping’ is something unique to the Corium system. They are manufactured in 2400mm lengths, ad...

China – ‘Kunlu’ mega-build construction machine that can erect 1,000 tonnes of girders to build bridge.

Posted on February 27, 2021February 27, 2021 by IE Article Contributor

Kunlun a mega machine that has been put into operation on the construction of the Meizhou Bay cross-sea bridge, it can transport and installs 1,000-ton and 40-meter-long girders on the high-speed railway bridge. Meizhou bridge, China's first cross-sea high-speed railway bridge, connects the cities of Xiamen and Fuzhou, realizing a travel time of less than one hour between the two cities. Behind the mega project, the world's first 1,000-ton level bridge girder erection machine, Kunlun, ma...

Superior Roads ‘Python’ – Pot Hole Patcher.

Posted on January 23, 2021January 23, 2021 by IE Article Contributor

Python Pothole Patchers represent a whole new approach to repairing potholes and maintaining your roads. It allows to repair potholes while they are still small and extend the life of your roads. The Python 5000+ makes long-lasting repairs using standard asphalt mixes – either hot or cold and has the unique ability to make continuous repairs to long cracks and joins in the road. One person can keep your roads in good repair all year round. Python 5000 is a self-propelled pothole ...

ICON Vulcan – 3D Construction Printer

Posted on January 23, 2021January 23, 2021 by IE Article Contributor

Vulcan is ICON’s 3D printer designed specifically to produce resilient single-story buildings faster, more affordably, and with more design freedom. It has a printing capability to approximately 2,000 square feet. It has an adjustable width (to accommodate different slab sizes) and is transported in our custom trailer with no assembly required. The Vulcan features intuitive tablet-based controls, remote monitoring and support, onboard LED lighting for printing at night or during low-ligh...

‘SafeAI’ – Autonomous Vehicle technology for mining and construction.

Posted on January 16, 2021January 16, 2021 by IE Article Contributor

The SafeAI Autonomous Platform brings advanced Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Vehicle technology to mining and construction industries. SafeAI was built by a team that brings rigorous safety standards, decades of production experience, and expertise in the implementation of the most advanced AI algorithms. With this experience, we partner with leading mining and construction companies to rapidly scale autonomous solutions for long-term value. SafeAI aims to explore new ideas on AI...

NASA intern opportunity

Posted on December 27, 2020December 27, 2020 by IE Article Contributor

NASA internships and fellowships leverage NASA’s unique missions and programs to enhance and increase the capability, diversity and size of the nation’s future science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) workforce. Internships are available from high school to graduate level. Internships provide students with the opportunity to participate in either research or other experiential learning, under the guidance of a mentor at NASA. https://youtu.be/WeA7edXsU40 OFFICE OF STEM EN...

DRAPER Laboratory – Innovation Partner that provides deep expertise to design, develop, and deploy advanced technology solutions

Posted on December 12, 2020December 12, 2020 by IE Article Contributor

Draper Laboratory is an American not-for-profit research and development organization, headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts; its official name is The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. The laboratory specializes in the design, development, and deployment of advanced technology solutions to problems in national security, space exploration, health care and energy. From whiteboard concept to fielded systems, Draper engineers design, develop and deploy advanced technology ...

Canvas – automated robot for the drywall finishing

Posted on December 5, 2020December 5, 2020 by IE Article Contributor

Canvas leverages advancements in collaborative robotics and machine learning to build a new class of tool for the drywall finishing space. The Canvas system provides a flexible approach to drywall finishing, combining the skills and expertise of trained union workers with technology that together enable Canvas to consistently deliver Level 5+ finishes. QUALITY Built Robotics and SafeAI, Inc.! and Canvas are all working to reinvent the construction site, making it safer and effi...

Embark – Self-driving Trucks

Posted on December 5, 2020December 5, 2020 by IE Article Contributor

Embark is building self-driving truck technology to make roads safer and transportation more efficient. Embark’s truck uses a combination of radars, cameras and depth sensors known as LiDARs to perceive the world around it. Millions of data points from these sensors are processed using a form of artificial intelligence known as Deep Neural Nets (or DNNs) that allow the truck to learn from its own experience—much like humans learn from practice. Alex Rodrigues - CEO and Co-Founder - Embar...

Jewel Changi Airport, Singapore.

Posted on November 21, 2020November 21, 2020 by IE Article Contributor

Jewel Changi Airport is a nature-themed entertainment and retail complex on the inside of Changi Airport, Singapore. Jewel represents an innovation in the world of lifestyle/retail design, with a one-of-a-kind relationship between garden and marketplace. https://youtu.be/owNABcxVY1g Jewel weaves together an experience of nature and the marketplace, dramatically asserting the idea of the airport as an uplifting and vibrant urban center, engaging travelers, visitors and residents, and ...

OCEANIX CITY – sustainable floating community for 10,000 residents

Posted on November 21, 2020November 21, 2020 by IE Article Contributor

Oceanix designs and builds floating cities for people to live sustainably on the ocean. A modular concept for new floating cities that is a self-sustaining & affordable. New industry with blue technologies that meet humanity's shelter, energy, water and food needs without killing marine ecosystems. Oceanix City, features mid-rise housing around a shared, green public space where agriculture and recreation co-exist. The design is anchored in the Sustainable Development Goals...

Bare Conductive – Interactive Wall – transforms any surface into a smart surface.

Posted on November 1, 2020November 1, 2020 by IE Article Contributor

Create robust and reliable interactive walls and murals with the Interactive Wall Kit. Intelligent coating technology that turns ordinary surfaces into smart ones. Use the Interactive Wall Kit to create touchless interfaces. By tuning its capacitive proximity sensors, users can interact with your wall without having to touch the surface. https://youtu.be/3Cd-5ZJOYdw Dynamically Functional Surfaces™ Bare Conductive’s groundbreaking Dynamically Functional Surface Technology makes...

Microsoft underwater datacenter

Posted on October 10, 2020October 10, 2020 by IE Article Contributor

The underwater datacenter concept splashed onto the scene at Microsoft in 2014 during ThinkWeek, an event that gathers employees to share out-of-the-box ideas. The concept was considered a potential way to provide lightning-quick cloud services to coastal populations and save energy. More than half the world’s population lives within 120 miles of the coast. By putting datacenters underwater near coastal cities, data would have a short distance to travel, leading to fast and smooth web surfin...

City of Leuven – European Capital of Innovation Award 2020

Posted on October 4, 2020October 4, 2020 by IE Article Contributor

European Capital of Innovation Award 2020 The award recognises Leuven’s excellence for developing and implementing innovative concepts, processes, and governance models – enabling a framework that makes innovation happen. brings ideas to life. The city aims to become one of Europe’s Labs of the Future through a mission-oriented model that facilitates collaborative innovation. Different groups of stakeholders come together, with the common purpose of innovating around complex challenges fr...

Saudi Arabia’s new futuristic mega-city 33 times the size of New York City

Posted on September 27, 2020September 27, 2020 by IE Article Contributor

Saudi Arabia's new futuristic mega-city 33 times the size of New York City, a $500 billion city-state. Neom is a planned cross-border city in the Tabuk Province of northwestern Saudi Arabia. It is planned to incorporate smart city technologies and also function as a tourist destination. Neom is a planned as a futuristic city with state of the art modern technology buildings, flying taxis, robot ... Saudi Arabia wants the country to become a technological and innovation hub. NEOM wi...

SmartSaker -Smart Hardware Tools

Posted on September 27, 2020September 27, 2020 by IE Article Contributor

Saker® Picture Hanging Tool Kit is a picture hanging and leveling tool that comes with all the hardware and fasteners that you need to hang framed photos on your walls. It has two parts. There’s the hanging and leveling tool (black) on top and the parts container on the bottom. The cool part is that the two parts fasten together so that everything is contained in one handy set. ✨Description: Unique Design: Accurately hang saw-tooth or wire picture frames with zer...

SAFR – AI-powered real-time facial recognition

Posted on September 13, 2020September 13, 2020 by IE Article Contributor

SAFR for Security is the premier facial recognition solution for live video that’s both highly accurate and tuned for rapid performance. With 99.87 percent accuracy, SAFR for Security can instantly detect and match millions of faces in real time, even under challenging conditions where faces are in motion, at different angles, under poor lighting conditions, or partially obscured – reducing the number of false alarms and simplifying a security professional’s ability to secure an area with confi...

Polygon – Modular & Touch Sensitive Wall Light

Posted on August 2, 2020August 2, 2020 by IE Article Contributor

Polygon - Modular & Touch Sensitive Wall Light Modular touch sensitive lighting. Create your own structure with Polygon™ magnetic tiles. Interactive light art. Designed in NYC. Swipe for light. Styles: Black Polygon Lights, White Polygon Lights, Starter Pack, https://youtu.be/ddVg-hSIjec Smart, innovative and creative team whose products are beautiful, functional and creative. polygonlight.com. The hexagon modules can be attached to the wall by either using the sticky ...

Magnetic Glass Whiteboard for Offices and Hospitals

Posted on June 13, 2017 by adminedit

"Foreverwhite" Glass Whiteboard ® featuring patent pending magnetic glass technology. This is the glass dry-erase board of the future, with new technology and advanced design. The "Foreverwhite" Glass Whiteboard ® will complement any office or board room! Glass whiteboards will last a lifetime and they never wear out and will always excel in performance and style. Writing is smooth and erasing is quick and effortless. No chalk tray needed; magnetic pen and eraser organizer set simply “clic...

German Center for Research and Innovation event on ‘Smart Cities & Urban Development ‘ in New York on May 2, 2017

Posted on April 12, 2017 by adminedit

German Center for Research and Innovation event on 'Smart Cities & Urban Development ' in New York on May 2, 2017 In order to achieve the goal of sustainable smart cities, strong collaborations in research and technology are critical. For this reason, six German urban research networks are building partnerships in the US to develop innovative solutions and joint projects for resource-efficient and climate-adapted cities of the future. The GCRI is inviting American researchers, urban plann...

‘Color Muse’ is a small film canister sized gadget with a built-in color scanner capable of perfectly matching paint or flooring colors in minutes.

Posted on January 24, 2017 by adminedit

COLOR MUSE scans virtually any surface — from flat ones like painted walls to textured ones like carpeting — then instantly identifies which namebrand paints, tile, floorcovering and other products match the scanned color. Finding the perfect matching color of paint is the most popular use for COLOR MUSE, but it’s just the beginning of what this incredible little tool can do. It’s also incredibly easy to use with the free COLOR MUSE app (iOS or Android) on your smart device. No bigger than th...

‘EverBlock’ are like giant lego blocks that are modular and allow you to build around fixed obstacles and construct objects that work within your environment.

Posted on January 22, 2017 by adminedit

EverBlock Systems offers a modular building system of oversized plastic blocks that facilitates the construction of all types of objects. It's quick and easy to build nearly anything, by stacking and organizing the universal blocks in nearly any shape, pattern, or size. EverBlock® is designed to be modular, enabling you to create nearly any sized object. It allows you to expand your creations as needed and modify your designs on the fly. Be as creative as you want to be an alternate c...

Columbia University Invention will soon make building material (Concrete) better and long lasting

Posted on December 31, 2016 by adminedit

Modern Building Materials The construction industry consumes more natural resources than any other industry. With increasing public awareness of the needs and demands of sustainable development and environmental conservation, no other industry is called on as much as the country's construction and building industry to evolve their practices to satisfy the needs of our current generation, without curtailing the resources of future generations to meet theirs. For example, concrete is by far the m...

Palazzo Italia building in Milan is a smog-eating machine

Posted on November 23, 2016 by adminedit

The spectacular Palazzo Italia building in Milan is a smog-eating machine. This unusual Palazzo Italia building is clad with biodynamic concrete panels. The Palazzo Italia actually consumes smog and takes pollution out of the air through its incredibly engineered biodynamic skin. The cladding of the white sinuous building is both highly innovative and sustainable. The 9,000-square-meter façade was realized with 900 biodynamic concrete panels developed by Italcementi. Its TX Active technolo...

SolarSinster 3dPrints Using Solar Energy and Sand

Posted on August 26, 2016 by amerchant

So far, Innovation Essence has featured 3d printed prosthetics, 3d printing pens, and 3d printers that print a house, and even food printing. However, another 3d printing product is also extremely innovative, as all of the former were limited in how much they could print by the amount of filament used. The SolarSinster prints glass, is entirely solarpowered, and runs off of natural resources. All it needs is the sun to be out and sand and it can function, making it ideal for a desert. Factories ...

NASA Is Testing Next-Generation Fire Shelters

Posted on June 19, 2016June 19, 2016 by adminedit

NASA reached an agreement with the US Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service to test prototype fire shelters made from the space agency's next-generation thermal protection systems (TPM) materials—intended, initially, to protect future spacecraft upon re-entry (in fact, a first generation of the material has already been tested on the agency's third Inflatable Reentry Vehicle Experiment vehicle, IRVE-3). Not unlike a spacecraft tearing through the atmosphere, NASA’s hope is that its mater...

Dubai to build 3D printed office

Posted on May 28, 2016 by adminedit

The United Arab Emirates National Innovation Committee has unveiled plans to build the world's first 3D printed structure with a massive, 20-foot-tall 3D printer. Though many structures have utilized 3D printing, none have been entirely built by using the technology. Everything - the building's structure, interior finishes, and furniture - will be 3D printed in sections and then assembled on site, according to a report by 3DPrint. The 2,000-square-foot building will then be used to house the Mus...