Construction Economics for September 28, 2020

ENR’s 20-city average cost indexes, wages and materials prices. Historical data and details for ENR’s 20 cities can be found at ENR.com/economics

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Only Informed Analysis and Integration Can Deliver on the Promise of Digital Twins

The premise of a digital twin has become confused in an engineering and construction world with several levels of analysis and approval. How best does a fully digital representation of what will be a physical building or infrastructure asset illuminate its construction process? Is it really as easy as seeing how an exhaust port that goes right to a vessel's main reactor might be a problem?

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Most Comments Blast ENR's Trump Editorial

ENR’s editors used its opinion page to weigh the pros and cons of the Trump presidency for the construction industry and found that the cons heavily outweighed the pros.

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Construction Economics for September 21, 2020

ENR’s 20-city average cost indexes, wages and materials prices. Historical data and details for ENR’s 20 cities can be found at ENR.com/economics

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284-Ft 'Ascent' Could Break Mass Timber Tower Height Record

Construction started last month on the 284-ft-tall mass timber-and-concrete apartment building in Milwaukee—which, if completed as planned in mid-2022, would be the world's tallest hybrid timber tower.

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Q&A: Komatsu America on Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic

The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the construction equipment industry has been severe, from severe declines in sales earlier this year to whole new protocols for manufacturing and delivery practices. But despite these initial shocks, major equipment manufacturers are looking to bounce back. Rick Smith, Vice President, Products and Services for Komatsu America took some time recently to answer some of ENR's questions about the company's response efforts.

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