{"id":3817,"date":"2018-09-07T14:19:13","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T18:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adsknews.autodesk.com\/?post_type=picks&#038;p=3817"},"modified":"2019-08-27T09:51:08","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T13:51:08","slug":"like-week-090718","status":"publish","type":"views","link":"https:\/\/adsknews.autodesk.com\/en\/views\/like-week-090718\/","title":{"rendered":"What We Like This Week: Powerful Concrete and Productive Conversations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world needs more buildings (and more people to build them), more ways to make things move, and more ways to make concrete store electricity. Check out this week\u2019s picks: <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3832 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/adsknews.autodesk.com\/app\/uploads\/2018\/09\/image001_rjgm9i.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"702\" srcset=\"https:\/\/adsknews.autodesk.com\/app\/uploads\/2018\/09\/image001_rjgm9i.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/adsknews.autodesk.com\/app\/uploads\/2018\/09\/image001_rjgm9i-300x211.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/> <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Our Chief Executive Astrophysicist. <\/strong>If you\u2019ve wanted to sit down 1-on-1 with Autodesk CEO Andrew Anagnost and pick his brain on all the big topics\u2014the future of making, the future of work, and the convergence of construction and manufacturing\u2014now you don\u2019t have to. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engineering.com\/DesignSoftware\/DesignSoftwareArticles\/ArticleID\/17553\/Interview-with-Anagnost-Part-1-Constructive-Criticism-How-Construction-is-Doing-It-All-Wrong.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Engineering.com beat you to it (in a juicy 3-part series)<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;That&#8217;s how the construction industry is evolving today. We&#8217;re moving towards a workflow where construction looks more like the modern factory assembly process.&#8221; &#8211; Andrew Anagnost, Autodesk CEO<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Move yourself. <\/strong>Actuation\u2014it\u2019s how anything moves itself. Humans do it with muscles and neurons. Robots and objects? Well, motors are just one way, and Wired reports on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/a-clever-and-simple-robot-hand\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a new robotic hand that can move with 2 motors instead of 20<\/a>. At Carnegie Mellon University, they\u2019ve developed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cmu.edu\/news\/stories\/archives\/2018\/august\/paper-actuation.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">low-cost way to make paper bend<\/a> in some really cool ways. And at the City University of Hong Kong, they\u2019re 3D-printing <a href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/the-worlds-first-4d-printed-ceramics-take-shape-thanks-to-a-team-of-mechanical-engineers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ceramics that take the shape of the Sydney Opera House<\/a> with the right electrical stimulus.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> https:\/\/vimeo.com\/280417057 <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Power to the pavement. <\/strong>A sidewalk that generates electricity when you walk on it? That\u2019s just <a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.proofpoint.com\/v2\/url?u=https-3A__www.architectmagazine.com_practice_concrete-2Dits-2Delectric-5Fo&amp;d=DwMFaQ&amp;c=76Q6Tcqc-t2x0ciWn7KFdCiqt6IQ7a_IF9uzNzd_2pA&amp;r=6yB_vd9nXARVpR0Q8ppvP1-z6eQVlq9V-Jlqfe073eM&amp;m=kHW5Nre6vHbxFWQvdPFNyDP-9oYE3Ho55mqPG_9Ml-4&amp;s=lzI-ZcgASFdmSUkrr0Zed-GHejwVnVglLM1sLUWMujY&amp;e=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one of the ways concrete can generate and store power<\/a>. Architect Magazine shares recent research.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_3836\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3836\" class=\"wp-image-3836\" src=\"https:\/\/adsknews.autodesk.com\/app\/uploads\/2018\/09\/DjmuAwbX0AENkDq.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/adsknews.autodesk.com\/app\/uploads\/2018\/09\/DjmuAwbX0AENkDq.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/adsknews.autodesk.com\/app\/uploads\/2018\/09\/DjmuAwbX0AENkDq-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3836\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Every footfall on this sidewalk on London&#8217;s Bird Street generates enough electricity to power a light for 20 seconds. Credit: Pavegen<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>People need buildings, and building needs people. <\/strong>Construction is booming\u2014in the US and around the world. But there\u2019s a problem: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.constructiondive.com\/news\/agc-autodesk-survey-labor-shortage-has-industry-at-a-tipping-point\/531340\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">not enough skilled people to do the work<\/a>. Autodesk\u2019s Sarah Hodges weighs in as part of Construction Dive\u2019s coverage.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cWith a rise in the share of firms having trouble finding skilled craft workers, it\u2019s evident that we need to reskill the future workforce. Technology can help bridge this gap, and more firms are bringing training in-house to implement digital strategies such as building information modeling.\u201d \u2013 Sarah Hodges, senior director at Autodesk<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world needs more buildings (and more people to build them), more ways to make things move, and more ways to make concrete store electricity. 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