For infrastructure-builder AECOM, additive manufacturing represents a way to address a set of its most-pressing risks–but is the technology ready?
Infrastructure
Additive manufacturing – Will the world’s next mega city drop out of a 3D printer?
Can you imagine building your next house from the push of a button? Will, you feel safe driving over a bridge if it was built by a giant printer? In this age of digital technology disruption, we as a society […]
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Rio Tinto, the second largest diversified mining company in the world, combats different types of climate change risks across its geographically diverse global footprint.
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It’s Not the Ship That’s Sinking, It’s the Port!
An underappreciated impact of climate change in a city that feels the water rising