Tag: Digital
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Dr Melanie Robinson: Digital Construction Champion 2025
Dr Melanie Robinson was named Digital Construction Champion of the Year at the Digital Construction Awards 2025. Since launch, Robinson has grown an extensive portfolio of work, including supporting Muse Places in specifying a standardised approach to digitalisation across their entire portfolio, to support with their duties to create a golden thread as a developer…
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Laing O’Rourke, Mace, McLaren and WSP among the winners at the Digital Construction Awards
Laing O’Rourke, Mace, McLaren Construction and WSP were among the big names who won trophies at the Digital Construction Awards 2025 last night (1 July). The ceremony took place at The Brewery in London before more than 430 of digital construction’s leading lights. Laing O’Rourke won the Digital Innovation in Health, Safety and Wellbeing category…
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Digital Construction Week soars to 10-year high
More than 9,000 people attended Digital Construction Week (DCW) over its two days at the start of June – a 4% year-on-year increase. There were 7,100 unique attendees, drawn not just from the UK, but also from the likes of Malaysia, Finland and Australia. The show marked its 10th anniversary with 230 sessions across 10 dedicated stages, 150 exhibitors, a…
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Bridging the Skills Gap: PlaneraEDU Prepares Construction Students for the Digital Jobsite
The construction industry stands at a crossroads. Faced with a persistent labor shortage, rising complexity in project delivery, and growing demands for speed and precision, construction leaders are under pressure to rethink how we prepare the next generation of workers. Nowhere is this more critical than in construction education, where traditional teaching methods and legacy…
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Infrastructure pipeline digital portal set for July launch
The strategy announcement also revealed that the National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority (NISTA) is leading the development of the government’s national infrastructure spatial digital tool. It is a single digital platform that brings together strategies, data and tools, including AI, to identify local infrastructure needs and constraints (e.g. energy, water and wastewater, transport, flood…
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Man City to install giant digital screens ahead of new season
A Carlisle-based engineering firm is delivering a major digital screen installation project at Manchester City’s Etihad Stadium for the 2025-26 season. The club has appointed Peacock Precision Services to undertake surveying and installation work for new large-scale digital screens at its home ground. The project involves specialist preparation and structural works to enable the integration…
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Two weeks left to join the best of digital construction
The Digital Construction Awards, celebrating best practice and innovation in the application of BIM, information management and digital technology in the built and managed environments, are on 1 July at the Brewery in London. The shortlisted entrants from 16 categories will gather on the night to celebrate and find out the winners. View the original…
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Two weeks left to join the best of digital construction
The Digital Construction Awards, celebrating best practice and innovation in the application of BIM, information management and digital technology in the built and managed environments, are on 1 July at the Brewery in London. The shortlisted entrants from 16 categories will gather on the night to celebrate and find out the winners. View the original…
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Digital passports will help break silos and share data
Whilst the challenges surrounding material quality, skills shortages and project delivery have been the UK construction industry’s core focus for decades, there’s a deeper, more fundamental issue holding us back. It’s something that, if resolved, could help overcome these problematic issues: the way we handle data. Dr Stephen Hamil reports. Under the EU’s CPR 20241,…
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Middlesex launches digital apprenticeships to fill skills gap
Middlesex University has launched six digital apprenticeship programmes for construction, spanning cyber security and data science through to digital marketing and user experience (UX). The programme aims to address current construction skills shortages and future skills needs, promote social inclusion, and increase productivity. Some 56% of businesses told the London Local Skills Improvement Plan that…