Last month, Clark Construction’s project team at the Lab School of Washington, in Washington, D.C., welcomed its newest member – SAM, the world’s first commercially available brick-laying robot. Working alongside the project mason, Manning Construction, SAM placed approximately 12,000 bricks along the exterior of the school’s new expansion. SAM, which stands for semi-automated mason, came to the site through a collaboration between Construction Robotics and Clark’s Research and Development Group. The robot excels at laying long, straight runs of brick, and The Lab School of Washington’s north and south elevations provided an ideal workspace. SAM is designed to supplement conventional … Read more

SAN DIEGO, Calif. — Level 10 Construction has completed building a new 16,500-square-foot habitat for Asian Leopards at the San Diego Zoo in California. The exhibit, which opened in June, replaces the leopards" former Cat Canyon home and connects with the existing Panda Trek Exhibit to the north. The Asian Leopard habitat was designed by Architects Mosher Drew. The $2.8-million habitat has four separate exhibit areas with enclosed overhead passageways above the visitor walkways allowing the leopards to climb up high and cross between habitats. Each habitat is in a separate enclosure built of structural steel and enclosed with stainless … Read more