3D Concrete Printing: Faster, Easier, Safer, Cheaper

The creativity of humans is limitless. A concrete proof of this is technology. It is truly mind-blowing how people can create things that once seemed impossible. And these powerful innovations changed our lives. Though there are drawbacks too, there are more advantages that we can enjoy.

With all the innovations and advancements in technology today, most of our daily tasks became easier and faster to achieve. Life becomes convenient in a way. And that’s mainly the purpose of technology. Being able to save time, effort, and money are some of the benefits we can get from all these innovations. Efficient, effective, and practical. Hence, most, if not all, opt for modern ways rather than traditional ones. May it be in our personal lives, career, or business.

Almost all industries nowadays adapt and utilize modern technology. Even architectural and construction companies are now using innovations that are useful in their field. One of the technologies that are making an enormous impact in the constructions industry is 3D concrete printing.

What is 3D concrete printing?

3D concrete printing is a modern technology that can create new shapes out of buildings or construction components. It is a form of additive manufacturing. Compared to the traditional manufacturing methods, it is cheaper, faster, and safer. That is why this technology is gaining popularity among construction firms and architects. They consider 3D concrete printing as a new shiny tool in their toolbox. Indeed, a revolution in the industry.

Well, using 3D concrete printing has many benefits. First and foremost, a concrete 3D printer produces minimal waste. Unlike many traditional manufacturing methods, it has a less environmental impact. It is way more eco-friendly than the traditional ones.

Another benefit of using 3D concrete printing is it helps in reducing errors and improves safety outcomes for workers on site. Mistakes are not acceptable in a manufacturing site. However, they are inevitable sometimes. And using a method that helps avoid these work errors is ideal. It saves time and ensures safety in the workplace, too.

This technology also allows architects to increase the flexibility in their designs, enabling them to take on more diverse projects. More projects mean more income.

And speaking of money, the use of 3D concrete printing offers a cost-efficient way of building homes. Low cost but with high build speed. It is ideal in the construction of affordable houses.

So, how does 3D concrete printing work?

The functions of standard 3D concrete printing are closely similar to the usual FDM printer.  Both technologies use material extrusion. They are also both controlled via g-code.

There are concrete 3D printers that can directly print on the spot. This type of concrete 3D printer is a mobile 3D printer. It usually has a crane and robotic arm arrangement. It deposits concrete layer by layer. There are also structural units of concrete 3D printers that can work offsite.

If you want to know how to operate a 3D concrete printer, there are easy steps you can follow online. There are also some courses and training that you can take up.

Blockchain Marketing: Tips and Tricks

Marketing is a tricky slope, regardless of the level of experience you have. With the short attention span of your potential clients, it’s even more challenging. This is also true for blockchain marketing, but the good news is you can apply some of the best marketing strategies to get the attention your business deserves.

Here are some of them:

Focus on one group

Any PR agency will tell you that for a marketing campaign to work, you should have a defined audience. Creating a marketing campaign that will work as a catchall sometimes works, but you are looking at possibly lower conversion rates because some of them will not be ready to convert just yet. If you focus on one group in coordination with your blockchain PR agency, you can tailor-fit the content to their interests and pain points, which then makes your product more effective in converting them.

Err on the side of ethical

With the rise of social media comes the rise of cancel culture. One mistake in the past could remain hidden because it is not easy for people to see it, but now, everything is on full display. When you are putting content out there as part of your marketing campaign, make sure it passes through several lenses so that you can avoid sounding tone-deaf about a delicate matter.

Be authentic

Your clients have wants and needs, but most importantly, they have opinions and causes to support. If you show them that you are taking a stand on a matter dear to your heart, they will appreciate the authenticity. In fact, nowadays, there is a higher chance that they will patronize a brand if they feel its authenticity.

Your marketing campaign need not be flashy for the wrong reasons. Just be clear about your target audience and show why you are the best blockchain service provider for them and you will see results.

Three Processes to Streamline in Your Manufacturing Business

As an owner of a manufacturing business, you’re responsible for two sets of people: businesses that subscribe to your products, and customers who buy from these businesses. This means you have to pay attention to the smallest details when it comes to providing quality product.

It doesn’t stop there, though.

You also have a responsibility to make sure your manufacturing business is growing. Now, here’s the question – how do you deliver efficiently but also keep your manufacturing business growing?

If you’re looking for the answer to this, it’s pretty simple. You start by streamlining these three processes in your manufacturing business:

1. Quality Control Management

Some people may treat business as a numbers game, but others don’t. If you can produce 1000 products that are below the level of quality your customers are expecting, do you think they’ll still trust your brand?

Highly unlikely.

That’s why you should prioritize product quality control management to make sure every item you produce meets the expectations of your customers. Gravity Supply Chain can provide you with this through our state-of-the-art technology made for manufacturers and retailers alike.

2. Supply Chain Monitoring

One of the important aspects of running a manufacturing business is having eyes on the product – from the creation to its journey. This eliminates confusion and ensure the product reaches its final destination without any hitch.

Getting supply chain management services can provide you with the solution to streamline supply chain monitoring.

3. Collaboration with Business Partners

Working in a silo can make things difficult for all people involved. If you want to translate efficiency into value, collaboration between you and your business partners is key.

Using Gravity Supply Chain software, for instance, can help you enhance communication from one brand to the other. This not only helps you cancel out unnecessary tasks, but also focus on the more important aspects of your manufacturing business.

Ready to streamline processes for your business? We’re here to help! Contact us today and we’ll show you a demo of how our Gravity Chain Supply software works!

Christmas Time With Family and Relatives

One of the much waited holiday by everyone is the Christmas season which most people have a long vacation and can spend time with their selves, family and friends. For me, this is what I am waiting for the whole year round. This is the season of love, sharing and thankfulness for the whole year that we had and for all the blessings that we have.

 

 

My Mt. Everest

The Wallflower Wanderer

The tallest, fiercest beast of rock, ice and snow on the planet goes by many names. 

If you’re the average Nepali, you’ve grown up calling it Sagarmāthā, meaning “forehead in the sky.” If you’re a native speaker of the Tibetan languages, it is the “mother of the world” or, Chomolungma. But those of us who have not had the rare pleasure of casting our eyes from a young age upward toward the behemoth, which rises like a ghost from the Mahalangur mountain range — we know it as Mt. Everest.

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It’s 5:45am and I’m making my way in darkness toward the nearest main road from my Airbnb in the Lainchaur neighborhood of Kathmandu.

The simple but sturdy four-story concrete home is buried deep in a pocket of squiggling half-paved, half-dirt streets that don’t appear to have names. Many are scarcely wide enough for a single car to pass people on foot.

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Homni: The new superorganism taking over Earth

Wandering Gaia

In Ancient Greek mythology, the Earth Goddess Gaia had nine titan sons, who attempted to control not just the Earth, but the entire Universe. I’d like to introduce another. It’s a new creature who emerged only in recent decades. But it’s a creature who is already as influential over life on the planet as the phytoplankton or forests that regulate global temperature, the weather and the air we breathe.

That new creature is us, or more precisely, what humanity is becoming. The entirety of our species, Homo sapiens, is evolving into a superorganism; I’ll call this new life force Homo omnis, or ‘Homni’.

We have now become the dominant force shaping our planet. Some say that because of our actions we have entered a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene, or the age of man. Homni is a product of this age, a product of human industrialisation, population…

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Little Things

Source of Inspiration

Lions, tigers, and bears, oh my!
It’s not the mighty beasts
of the jungle that we
need to worry about but
rather the fleas, ticks, spiders
that can bring us down.

Little bite here, another there
buzzing in the ear
crawly thing you can’t find
under your clothes. One by one
they drive us to distraction.

World wars, famine, end of times
will have to wait
because relentless mosquitoes
are keeping me awake.

You laugh, but it is often
little things that wear us down
make us give up
steal the light from
our eyes.

Pay attention to the every day
petty faults and problems.
Stop them before they get worse.
Take care of your health
your immediate world
family and friends
for it is here that
our problems begin.

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Peppered Sky

Leaf And Twig

sky peppered with birds
the seasoning of spring

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Travelling on Negative Effects of Being a Boxer

Nowadays, boxing is the prestigious sports to our poor community especially in rural areas. Due to greatness of our boxing champ Manny Pacquiao, most minors in poor community aspiring to be a boxer like him, besides of being popular, a man with a multiple amount of wealth that he can boast on to.

In some parts of General Santos City, there are some youths saying that “the money is in boxing, in order for us to be in fame and affluent, we should conquer the world of boxing.” Because of there social status they easily come up with those things that can deliver them in richness but they don’t even know boxing can harm them in different serious ways, what’s on there mind is to gain money for there families to uphold with the impoverishment in life.

According to cia.gov and nation master.com, as of July 2008, Philippines population is rapidly increased by 96 million and 40% of its nation is in poverty line. General Santos City is also included in the trend of poor segment of society; a lot of minors in the said city are ambitioning to be a boxer in the future. They idolized other boxers who have reached the top, but on the other side of the view, disadvantages are in their way before they reach the thrown.

The American Association of Neurological Surgeons say that 90% of the boxers sustain brain injury, Boxing has fewer account of deaths than some other sports but the victims of suffering brain damage is highly rising. Head injury in boxing is common; being punch on head can cause face and tissue damage in the brain, fracture to the bone of head and major concussions. A hit can destroy our tear nerve networks and lesions that can cause brain tumor and bleeding and sometimes produce large clots within the brain.

Boxing can cause numerous numbers of injuries especially in head. It is estimated that when a boxer gets an indirect hit to the head it is like being blown blow by a 12lb padded wooden mallet traveling at 20 mph.

Boxing can cause Body Damage 

Like a cut that lives them permanent scars, bruises an injury that doesn’t break the skin but results in some discoloration, broken teeth, dental problems, broken ribs that leads to compromise ventilation by causing pain, which can prevent proper ventilation and coughing. This impairment may result in atelectasis, retained secretions, and pneumonia. Multiple rib fractures can cause flail chest, which may result in ventilators insufficiency due to ineffective respiratory action and lastly the internal bleeding of internal organs.

Boxing can cause Eye Injuries

Even though some boxer uses safety equipment to protect their major parts of our body, they can also derive different eye injuries. Like retina injury, retinal detachment and retinal hemorrhage. Our eyes are very vulnerable by direct hit that can result injury in retina it may cause sensitive lining of the eye use for sight, mascular degeneration occurs when retina is damaged causing of central vision damaged while the retinal detachment is a kind of separation of black wall of the eye, when the retina separates the circulation of blood supply will be reduced and its ability can adopt light rays will be interrupt. If this thing happens the data that enters to brain will no longer transmit that can blindness. The other eye injury that we can gain is retina hemorrhage it is bleeding into an area of the retina the part of the eye that lies in the back of the eye and responsible for receiving light it may also cause blindness.

Some of the ex-boxer is experience deterioration in old age due prone of punches and blows the side of boxing occurs in the old age most likely after 10 to 15 years of retirement. Some of them suffer diseases like Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease. Boxers inner grey surface in brain matter is smaller and thinner. The ventricles within the brain enlarged due to decrease in the brain’s white matter.

One amateur Filipino boxer died from serious head injuries sustained during a bout against a Thai boxer last year in Bangkok. The Filipino boxer underwent to a surgery to remove the blood clot from his brain after he fell insensible before he gets his way to dinner after reviving his fourth-round knockout loss. The Amateur Filipino boxer died with a heart failure and failed to retain his wit after his surgery.

Boxers must wear safety equipment to lessen the severe effect of injuries. According to Sciencedaily.com, about 20% percent of professional boxers develop chronic traumatic brain injury (CTBI). Some studies have suggested that amateur boxers also damage their nervous system. Chronic traumatic brain injury (CTBI) associated with boxing occurs in approximately 20% of professional boxers. Risk factors associated with CTBI include increased exposure, poor performance and increased in sparring. Boxers exhibiting CTBI will present with varying degrees of motor, cognitive and behavioral impairments. It is also known as dementia puglistica, chronic encephalopathy or the punch drunk syndrome, it represents the cumulative, long term neurological consequences and sub-concussive blows to the brain. This disease is infrequently encountered by the amateur boxers unless they have excessive exposure to the sport.

Increasing exposure to boxing may have risk in enological injury, CTBI risk factors are from retirement after 28 to 30 years, boxing longer than 10 years or fought for more than 150 bouts. Cognitive impairment in CTBI is mostly to affect attention, memory and executive or frontal function. Early manifestations of CTBI can include decreased complex attention followed by slowed mental speed and mild deficits in memory, lethargic in movement and speech, attention and executive ability.

Learning of boxing to minors will have bad benefits to their health especially to there mental perception and adaptation in other things. Minors will consider boxing as part of there daily life that leads to violence. For those children whose lives are in poverty line, boxing is not the answer for their financial problem. There are youths sojourning the field of boxing because of poor status, but the remedy to uphold their status is education.

The youth can attain the top through education and not battering their selves. In education they will acquire new knowledge and discover different things they will value each and anawangin zambales everyone that they will see, they are going to live like a child. By producing hard-working and dedication in education, they can change our lives.

Life is not permanent, everything in this world changes especially our destiny, we are the one who’s making our history and we are the one who knows what’s right for us.

That’s a Wrap: A Snapshot of November’s Photo 101 Course

The Daily Post

As I’d mentioned in the final Photography 101 post, congratulations again to participants in our first-ever Blogging U. course dedicated to photoblogging. November proved to be a fun, busy month of picture-taking and blog posting, and we hope you enjoyed meeting other bloggers in the Commons and pushing yourself to meet your daily publishing goals.

Throughout November, we were excited to see a wide range of participants — from brand-new bloggers to veteran photographers — connect, teach, and learn from one another. We also enjoyed seeing different interpretations of the daily themes, from your locations all over the world.

A wonderful interpretation of swarm: Synchronous Swarm, Mitch Zeissler, Exploratorius

We plan to run this course again, as well as new 201-level courses focused on different elements of photography. Throughout the month, we noted your feedback on the assortment of themes and tips, as well as the course pacing and…

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