Golden Globes sheds hard scenery for coronavirus era ceremony

NewscastStudio: NBC’s telecast of the 78th Golden Globes Awards was, like so many other broadcasts, adapted heavily to accommodate social distancing challenges due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Meet the new wave of female builders

The Washington Post: Angela Cacace’s career began with a magazine contest. The D.C. barber had moved to North Carolina for her husband’s job and so successfully remodeled their kitchen that she won a contest in This Old House. Encouraged by the story’s editor to pursue her contracting dreams, she enrolled in a local building program. “I was so nervous on the first day of class,” she recalls, “but six of the 12 students were women — I was blown away. I remember an instant feeling of confidence that we had a place here.”

Tin Is In: 8 Ways to Tap Into 2019's Newest Design Trend

realtor.com®: Metallics have been the darling of interior design for the past several years—silver, gold, and brass reign supreme in our homes, mixing together for every kind of look from eclectic to glam. But now, a new metallic has pushed its way into the inner circle: tin.

The shiny material is among the top 100 trends for 2019, according to Pinterest, which found that this search term was up a whopping 563% year over year.

Flexible Wood from dukta finds rising interest

Woodworking Network: Dukta Flexible Wood is a sandwich of engineered wood and felt layers that allows the material to be bent and shaped readily into curves and contours. Dukta's Zurich location serves as a development and design office, from which it helps clients develop new applications based on its internationally patented dukta incision process, for use in architectural interiors and for numerous products.

How construction robots can amplify workers' expertise

Construction Dive: Construction jobsites will one day be bustling with “terminator-type,” humanoid robots, according to Scott Peters, president and co-founder of Construction Robotics, but that future may be a long ways off for the industry.

For now, the Victor, New York-based company recognizes that human workers have unique expertise and problem-solving skills to offer, and that to increase productivity on jobsites, robots should first be used to augment those capabilities.

Robots build wood structures too complex for humans

Woodworking Network: In Spatial Timber Assembly (STA), robotic arms fabricate and assemble wooden parts into extremely complex geometric buildings and rooms - spaces that were previously impossible to build with timber. See the robots motion-cut, lift, translate, rotate, and move around below.

Chicago company makes big things that are seen but seldom noticed

Chicago Sun-Times: So here’s the riddle:

What business makes something big that you see all the time but seldom notice?

These very large, custom-made products are usually unique: built once and never again. Each can cost millions of dollars only to be used briefly, sometimes just for a few hours, then thrown away.

Understanding framing lumber grades

Pro Construction Guide: The species of lumber and lumber grades available will often vary depending on which region you are in. In California, for example, the predominate species of dimensional lumber used for home building is Douglas Fir-Larch (DF-L). As you move east, lumberyards stock both DF-L and Hem Fir (HF). Once you get into the Southwest, you may use Spruce-Pine-Fir (SPF). All of these are considered softwoods and are graded under the American Softwood Lumber Standard PS 20.

A Change of Scenery: Staging, Rigging & Set Design

Church Production Magazine: As one attempts to unravel staging and set design practices, several questions become apparent: what is good design? Who should be the final authority on an effective stage design? What elements play into the success from both an aesthetic and functional standpoint? What processes should be in place for a design regardless of size or scope?

Velocity Robotics brings advanced technology to the construction site

TribLIVE: The construction industry is ripe for technology — tools to be connected, tasks for robots, measurements to be remembered by machines, not humans.

But contractors and construction companies balked when Brad Kriel first started pitching his company's connected, robotic miter saw accessory, Autoset.

Designing the Stop-Motion Sets of Aardman Animation's Early Man!

Tested: Even though a stop-motion animated film is shot at a smaller-than-life scale, the sets and environments that need to be built for its clay characters can still be massive. Adam Savage enters the production design room at Aardman Animations to learn how Early Man's sets are blueprinted, prototyped, and then finally built to be filmed, one frame at a time.