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Survey: Digital Transformation Brings Industry 4.0 Within Reach, But Manufacturers Continue to Face Challenges  Business Wire

Ministry of Finance, Qatar Development Bank hosts ‘towards digital transformation & industry 4.0’ event  ZAWYA

An Innovative Approach to Anomaly Detection: Revolutionizing Quality Control for Industry 4.0_TN Innovation Series  NASSCOM Community

EGA’s EX technology pilot to be used to prove most advanced Industry…  Aluminium Today

I’m working on an unvented cathedral ceiling with 4” of polyiso insulation on top of the roof and fiberglass batts on the interior in the rafter bays (one of the recommended “cathedral ceilings that work”: https://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/article/five-cathedral-ceilings-that-work) There’s a catch: the sheathing sits on top of some old 1” furring strips that run horizontally (left behind […]

I recently purchased a fully gutted ~1850’s brick farmhouse with a new steel roof, and I’m getting ready to start rebuilding. I’m in central Pennsylvania (Zone 5A), the walls are 3-wythe structural brick.  This house needs some major masonry work / repointing / parging, and long-term I’d like to add insulation and air seal as […]

In a flash & batt approach to a flat roof deck or unventilated attic, should the closed cell foam encapsulate the rafters? This is for an inhabited attic, with a sloped roof, in new construction but in working on the problem I realized it would also apply to a low-slope roof over living space. So […]

Hello, I am planning the build of a metal building in Oklahoma (hot and humid summers and mildly cold winters). I want to use Polyiso foam board as insulation for both the sidewalls and roof. My question is should I put the foam board against the metal or should I leave an air gap between […]

When it comes to building more housing, arguably the greatest obstacle is scalability. How can we build fast and efficiently enough to close the gap on the country’s housing crisis while not exacerbating existing issues concerning labor shortages, labor costs, and supply chains? If and when we begin to make up ground, how do we […]

KEZAD Group, Siemens to enhance Industry 4.0 readiness in Abu Dhabi  Arabian Business