Digital Construction News

Parm Bhangal, managing director at Bhangals Construction Consultants discusses BIM and how deeply it has established itself in the world of construction.

Construction is playing a leading role in the UK’s economic recovery but in an uncertain world, accurately forecasting costs and keeping them on track can be tricky. With new opportunities on the cards, forward-thinking firms are using digital technology, including estimating software, to win more tenders and improve the profitability of projects, as Andy Day, estimating, take off & surveying software consultant from Access Construction, explains.

Integrated Collaboration Platforms like Revizto are helping to challenge the idea that rework and waste are an inevitable part of complex construction projects.

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been used to undertake a survey of the Lloyd’s building’s external façade in the heart of the City of London. Russell Cole, leader of façades UK at Arup, discusses this challenging project and the potential of drones in surveying dense urban areas.

SCIA Engineer assists the design and engineering of the “head with a boom” structure for the Bregenz Festival in Austria.

The Planning London Datahub harnesses digital twin technology to make close to real-time planning information accessible to all 36 Greater London planning authorities. Will Squires, associate director of digital at Atkins, explains its development and the endless possibilities it could open up.

Richard Hyams, director at astudio, explores how technology can help to improve the social and environmental impact for our built environment.

SCIA Engineer was used to analyse a global model of the Port House in Antwerp, including both the steel structure and the sculptural concrete forms. Find out more here.

A consortium, led by specialist drone solution developer, sees.ai, has been awarded a shared of £30m to develop and test a remotely operated drone system for industrial and urban environments.

SCIA Engineer’s 2D shell elements help model the shape of the extractor shell reinforcement structure in Olomouc, Czech Republic. Discover more here.

5G technology will allow vast amounts of data to be transferred and analysed, offering significant opportunities for smart(er) cities and commercial real estate. Professor Richard Kingston, professor of urban planning at the University of Manchester, examines what is in store.

Keith Beverley, key account manager at Wavin UK explores the use of BIM in modular construction, how digitisation has the power to bring cost savings to the industry and how the construction sector could learn from car manufacturers.

Computer scientists at the University of the West of England are developing software that uses AI and machine learning to help construction companies reduce the amount of embodied carbon in their building and infrastructure projects. Dr Lukman Akanbi explains how the project could help the UK achieve its net zero targets.

Check out for yourself how easy and time-efficiently you can go from a structural model, regardless of your CAD software, to an analysis model, thanks to SCIA AutoConverter.

Allplan Bimplus is saving time, efficiency and accuracy through collaboration and the sharing of information on the complex New Lock Terneuzen project in the Netherlands.

The Nemetschek Group has announced that its subsidiary Maxon has acquired 100% of the business segment of its Japanese distributor, TMS Corp.

Nemetschek Group draws a positive conclusion from construction trade fair, BAU Online 2021, as 38,000 visitors log in virtually.

Re-entering data manually to generate an analysis model is definitely a thing of the past! Reduce the risk of error from exchanging data from different systems to an absolute minimum thanks to the SCIA AutoConverter.

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BAM Nuttall has secured investment from Government which will fund 9 new projects to explore how 5G technology can support the construction industry.