Category: Digital Construction
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The seven keys to unlocking productivity improvements
Katy Dowding, Skanska UK president and CEO, and CPT project sponsor, said: “This paper builds on the CPT’s work since 2019, where clients, consultants, contractors and the supply chain collaborate to boost industry growth and improve safety and quality through better productivity. Like the earlier seven-step framework and the Private Sector Playbook, it offers practical…
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Caulmert’s journey from BIM Level 2 to 19650
Many construction businesses and their projects are still transitioning from BIM Level 2 to the next stage, namely the ISO 19650 suite of information management standards. Engineering consultancy Caulmert has recently gained certification to 19650: its BIM manager, Tim Williams, discusses his and the firm’s journey to the standard. Caulmert was founded in 2008 and…
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Digital Construction North 2025: register now
Digital construction professionals in the north can now register to attend Digital Construction North (DCN) in Manchester on 19 November. This year’s event at Manchester Central is the second for the Digital Construction Week spin-off. It is free to attend and will feature more than 50 exhibitors and more than 50 presentations across five theatres.…
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CIOB president joins Acumine as board adviser
CIOB president Paul Gandy has become board adviser at Acumine, the business intelligence and data analytics consultancy. Acumine works with tier 1 contractors, including Kier, McLaren, Wates, Willmott Dixon, Sir Robert McAlpine and Tilbury Douglas (of which Gandy was chief executive for five years), and mid-tier contractors and consultants. Gandy will work closely with the…
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Skanska buoyed by insights from OpenSpace reality capture data
Jeevan Kalanithi, co-founder and CEO of OpenSpace, added: “For years, reality capture has been treated as a nice-to-have – useful for documentation or dispute resolution. With today’s launch, we are moving beyond reality capture and redefining reality data as a strategic asset that simplifies workflows and fuels results, from the field to the C-suite. We…
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Digital Construction Awards 2026: it’s time to enter
This year’s winners included Alconex Infrastructure and Solutions (named Digital Contractor of the Year), Laing O’Rourke (which won Digital Innovation in Health, Safety and Wellbeing), and McLaren Construction (which won Digital Team of the Year). The Belfast Grand Central Station secured the prestigious Digital Construction Project of the Year. View the original article and our…
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Rapid internet installation on site
“We’ve worked closely with contractors and developers to design a service that meets the realities of site-based work,” said Rob Lombardi, construction sector lead at Wifinity. “Our delivery and support models allow sites to mobilise quickly.” View the original article and our Inspiration here
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BSR’s data management is manual and ‘not viable’
“My very hard-working colleagues inside the BSR are having to manually segregate data the whole time to best understand where to put their efforts. That is an unnecessary amount of bureaucracy that has nothing to do with safety, and if we radically improve it, will enable more houses to get built, more applications to be…
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New venue and new date for the Digital Construction Awards
The Digital Construction Awards celebrate best practice and reward innovation in the application of BIM, information management and digital technology in the built and managed environments. The awards are organised by Digital Construction Week (DCW), Construction Management, the CIOB and Digital Construction Plus. View the original article and our Inspiration here
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BIM gains ground in the Republic of Ireland
The BIM mandate is being phased in over four years in the Republic of Ireland. From January 2024, it applied to the design team on projects worth more than €100m. A year later, it was extended to contractors and the supply chain on projects worth more than €100m and to the design team on projects…