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.
With the race to net zero hotting up and building design and management ever more focused on ESG-related issues, BIM and digital twin technology used together can help the industry steal a march on more sustainably designed and operated buildings, explains Devan Mistry, associate director at McBains.
Tech could clear many of the construction industry’s current stumbling blocks, but not without considerable investment and commitment to sourcing and developing the right talent. John Miles, Business Development Director at Assent Building Control, discusses the current state of technology in construction and building control.
How can businesses ensure that new construction technology is successfully implemented, and what pitfalls could companies face in the process? Here to offer advice on how firms can ensure a smooth transition, Ibrahim Imam of construction management platform PlanRadar, explains why a people-first approach should always be a top priority.
Procore Technologies has released its 2022 Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Report, which highlights the company’s guiding principles, efforts and aspirations related to ESG.
The fifth round of HS2's Innovation Accelerator will see tech start-ups working on-site with civil engineering contractors to tailor solutions for the construction industry.
Construction technology provider Causeway Technologies has been selected by National Highways as part of its new £1bn Information Technology Commercial Framework (ITCF).
Faro Technologies has announced the acquisition of SiteScape, an iOS enabled low-resolution LiDAR capture software providing solutions for the AEC and O&M markets.
Re-flow field management has announced the addition of WJ – the UK’s leading specialist road marking business- to their growing community of hundreds of businesses across the country.
Xbim, a developer of Building Information Modelling (BIM) software services and platforms has been unveiled as the winner of Define Hackathon event – after demonstrating how its platform could integrate with a digital data dictionary to undertake a life cycle assessment.
Everyone in every line of business must deploy various business processes to achieve differing objectives. In this article, FlowForma explains how business process automation can take the pain out of nasty processes.
James Griffiths, co-founder and technical director at Cyber Security Associates warns that with the construction sector increasingly becoming a target of cybercriminals, firms need to be watchful of their supply chain security.
Pursuing a competitive advantage is driving continued innovation and IT investment across the construction sector, but staying ahead of the curve is easier said than done. Rob Smith, CTO, of Creative ITC, discusses the latest construction technology trends helping firms overcome innovation barriers.
Sometimes, events occur that shake the foundations of your organisation. In this article, FlowForma explores how businesses can boost their efficiency and continuity by onboarding FlowForma Process Automation.
How we interact, communicate, live, and work are all changing. In this article, Process Automation experts FlowForma explores how FlowForma Engage helps customers to adapt and adjust to new digital ways of working.
In this article, FlowForma explores how customers can get the most out of their investment in the least amount of time through their SureStart process.
In this article, Ursula Cullen, senior digital marketing executive at FlowForma, explores how to best position process optimisation and automation within an organisation using insights from the Forrester Research Q3 2022 Digital Process Automation Survey results.
Payapps are extremely proud to have won the Cloud Technology of the Year Award from a large list of 8 finalists at the 2022 Construction Computing Awards on 10th November.
In this article, FlowForma explores the ways in which construction businesses can reduce costs with process automation and adopting new automated tools.
As extreme weather events become more frequent, technology can play a key role in protecting vital infrastructure, says Marko Ravnjack, applications engineer, monitoring, track survey and scanning at Trimble.
Hinkley Point C is one of the biggest and most complex projects currently under construction in Europe, responsible for delivering the buildings that will house the two new nuclear reactors. This video from Trimble Viewpoint explores how a range of Trimble products have been used in the project.
