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Mighty Buildings lands $22M to create ‘sustainable and affordable’ 3D-printed homes

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Mighty Building’s self-proclaimed mission is to create “beautiful, sustainable and affordable” homes. The company claims to be able to 3D print structures “two times as quickly with 95% less labor hours and 10-times less waste” than conventional construction. “We have spent four years figuring out what it takes to achieve that.

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Sustainability catches the eye of Kompas’ shiny new, green-tinted glasses fund

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The firm has an Amsterdam, Copenhagen and Tel Aviv presence, and now has a $160 million sack of funds to deploy across its focus areas: sustainability and technological innovation in the construction, real estate and manufacturing industries. Sebastian Peck and Talia Rafaeli are heading up the new sustainability fund for Kompas.

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Austin-based ICON awarded $57.2 million NASA contract for lunar construction tech

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ICON , a construction tech company that’s raised more than $400 million in funding, has landed a new contract from NASA to develop new systems to build on the moon and Mars. million contract is a continuation of a previous Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) dual-use contract with the U.S. Austin-based ICON awarded $57.2

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Building the future of construction

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The construction industry in many countries around the world is facing a labor shortage crisis. For construction to continue at the pace needed, something has to change. For construction to continue at the pace needed, something has to change. There is a solution: remote operation of construction machinery. Innovation

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Pitching tech to optimize building design for sustainability, Atlanta-based Cove.tool raises $5.7 million

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Patrick Chopson and Sandeep Ahuja started cove.tool , an Atlanta-based company developing software to optimize building design for sustainability and cost, because of problems they’d faced in their careers as architects. ” Ultimately, the focus will still be on efficiency and sustainability, the founders said.

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From project to product: Architecting the future of enterprise technology

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Would you focus solely on approving individual building permits, or would you first establish a comprehensive city plan that considers infrastructure, sustainability and community needs? This means creating environments that enable innovation while ensuring system integrity and sustainability.

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Mighty Buildings nabs $40M Series B to 3D print your next house

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One of those companies, Oakland-based Mighty Buildings , just raised $40 million in Series B funding for its quest to create homes that it says are “beautiful, sustainable and affordable” using 3D printing, robotics and automation. Khosla was drawn to the Mighty Buildings’ innovative approach. “We

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