Solar-Powered Manufacturing Transforms a Pittsburgh Neighborhood

by Margaret Poe, gb&d

Published October 27, 2020

Featuring Maura Rockcastle, PLA, ASLA

In 1883 Jones & Laughlin Steel Company built its first plants along the Monongahela River in Pittsburgh. The resulting factories, massive in scale and occupying acre upon acre, employed the thousands of workers who turned Pittsburgh into Steel City.

More than 130 years later advanced manufacturers operate on that same land. Carnegie Mellon University researchers pursue the latest in advanced robotics technology at a site that once paved the city’s industrial heyday.

From precision welding robots that improve steel workers’ safety to a robotic spraying system to disinfect warehouses exposed to COVID-19, innovation forges ahead on this historic site. While the smokestacks are gone, the spirit of industry pushes on…

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