Following Trimble’s Connected Construction Conference last year, Benedict Wallbank reflects on the industry’s progress towards Building Safety Act compliance. Experiences of implementing the Building ...

A £5.5m EU research project is investigating whether telecommunication fibre-optic cables can be turned into sensors to detect natural disasters. It is hoped cables could be used to detect earthquakes ...

The Crown Estate’s marine and digital teams have developed a spatial planning system to help determine seabed use around England, Wales and Northern Ireland up to 2050. The project is using Esri’s GIS ...

Data scientists from Liverpool and South Korea have teamed up to improve bus journeys across the city by creating a digital twin of the area’s transport system. The model will help predict the impact ...

ONE Engage is an innovative building safety platform responding to the Building Safety Act. It connects residents, landlord safety teams, and fire and rescue services (FRS) digitally, addressing ...

Are you a contractor struggling to find skilled personnel? Are you a skilled worker looking for the next project to work on? Perhaps Fixed Construction may have the answer for you both. Fixed ...

Bryden Wood, the integrated architectural and engineering practice, brought the concept of a platform approach to design, which was adopted by government for its prisons programme. Since then it has ...

Airc.design and Airc.digital are working on the conversion of Park House, a 19th Century listed building in Egham, Surrey, using digital tools to transform the design, engage with stakeholders and ...

Deltek has launched an AI-powered assistant, Deltek Dela. It is designed to make it easier for Deltek users to access business intelligence, get assistance and apply automation, in order to increase ...

New digital skills, such as cyber security, digital design and AI, will be in high demand, according to new research from Autodesk. The second annual State of Design and Make report from Autodesk ...

There are 10 types of digital technology that are the most effective at reducing errors in construction, according to a report from the Get It Right Initiative (GIRI). The 10 types of technology, ...

From digital twins to digital shadows, and now sleeping digital twins. The latter is a theory, being advanced by net-zero technology specialist IES, that posits that dormant 3D design, compliance and ...