Construction’s small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have faced significant challenges in recent years. Rising material costs, inflation and difficulties accessing finance have placed pressure on these businesses. However, there are solutions that offer hope for overcoming these obstacles.
Morgan Sindall, alongside Nottingham Trent University with funding from CITB are collaborating to run the Innovation Driven Procurement (IDP) to help small construction firms drive innovation in construction.
Causeway Technologies has acquired specialist construction telemarketing company Enhance Consultancy, as part of its journey to link every stage of the construction process with technology.
Causeway has announced the launch date of its latest design engineering platform, Live Design 4.0, which aims to bring site infrastructure disciplines into one design environment .
Causeway is on a mission to create the most powerful digital platform for the construction industry with the acquisition of mobile development company, Ermeo.
In this article, Mobarak Ali, a graduate quantity surveyor from Bouygues UK, explores how The Riverside development in Canterbury is using digital payment processes for improved efficiency and time management.
Submitting applications for payment to Bouygues UK, Gtek have embraced Payapps technology. This article explores how Gtek has shifted from a manual, paper-based process for submitting payment applications, to using Payapps for improved predictability of payments and cash flow.
In this episode of Construction Talk, Peter Haddock and Chris Grant, Partnership Manager at Digital Construction Skills, talk about Chris’ role in the CITB funded programme, which helps to support construction SMEs in Scotland.
The Construction Innovation Hub has unveiled it's D-COM project, in partnership with Cardiff University's Digital Compliance Network, which will use technology to untangle complex compliance checking processes.
In this episode of Construction Talk, Peter Haddock and Annette Pass, Head of National Highways Innovation, talks about innovation priorities, digital rehearsal, and intelligent machine control.
Balfour Beatty becomes the first UK construction company to roll out the new FALCON ACLM® Automated Cone Laying Machines to reduce the risks associated with cone laying across its Highways operations.
In this episode of the Construction Talk Podcast, Nathan Marsh, Chief Digital Officer at Turner and Townsend, talks to Peter Haddock about society embracing technology and how tech itself is getting increasingly capable.
BBV has adopted software from Esri UK, rolling out its Site Scan for ArcGIS drone flight management and image processing software, to support its drone deployment strategy across 90km of the Midlands, digitising HS2 construction workflows.
In this episode of the Construction Talk Podcast, Peter Haddock sits down with Matthew Ayres, group managing director of The Bennie Group, to talk about how early technology adoption can generate and harvest data, diversity and inclusion, and new talent.
Causeway Tradex EDI solution has provided Kier Group with the opportunity to ensure that all invoices were received, validated and delivered via touchless processing into their ERP. Here, Dan Foley, finance shared services director at Kier Group, explains how Causeway Tradex has transformed the way the business operates.
As part of the company’s commitment to net zero, Tarmac has placed an order with Renault Trucks for the first battery electric mixer truck in the UK.
CityFibre have partnered with O’Connor Utilities Ltd (OCU) to launch a new digital infrastructure training centre in Sheffield, which will help people from across South Yorkshire to develop the skills they will need to begin a career in digital construction.
Andy Peart, marketing director, Yotta, explains why councils must use a single ‘any asset’ or service management system to rationalise their infrastructure asset management systems.
Fabio Mercurio of ABB Smart Buildings explains how smart technology can reduce energy use and CO2 emissions in commercial and industrial buildings, giving insight into how this is being achieved through innovative decarbonization projects in Germany and China.
