State departments of transportation (DOTs) increasingly use visualization and modeling technologies for delivering projects across the United States. Advanced innovative have ability to improve various construction processes tasks while making process more efficient productive. Visualization technologies, which include building information infrastructure, light detection ranging, virtual realit...

Circular hollow sections (CHS) offer a variety of constructional and architectural advantages. Up to now, section structures have usually been connected by welding, more rarely bolting. However, these established connection methods disadvantages. Despite its great success in the mobility sector, adhesive bonding is not yet used for joining steel construction. Adhesive bonding, however, has sign...

During the summer of 1998, Hubert O’Connor, a white Catholic bishop and former Indian residential school principal in British Columbia, participated in what a local magazine termed “a centuries-old native ceremony”: an indigenous healing circle. In 1991, O’Connor was indicted on criminal charges for sexual offences he had allegedly committed some thirty years earlier against five indigenous wom...

The Cambridge Handbooks on Construction Robotics series focuses on the implementation of automation and robot technology to renew the construction industry and to arrest its declining productivity. The series is intended to give professionals, researchers, lecturers, and students basic conceptual and technical skills and implementation strategies to manage, research, or teach the implementation...