BIM – a tale of two SME futures
Paul Reeve, Director of Business Services at the Electrical Contractors’ Association (ECA), looks at what needs to be done to boost supply chain readiness...
Plugging the skills gap: the apprenticeship levy
During the Spending Review the Chancellor clarified how the apprenticeship levy would work going forward. Planning and Building Control Today examines what this means...
Majority of construction staff work when injured or ill
More than 90 per cent of construction workers admit to working when they were physically injured or unwell…
Pressures on construction workers to pay the...
Index helps to support large scale energy programmes
A new report has revealed how the Local Authority Energy Index has performed over the past 12 months…
The Local Authority Energy Index was set...
The building conversions challenge
Premier Guarantee outline the challenges faced when building conversions are not as simple as once imagined...
Building conversions as we know are often difficult to...
Spending Review: Infrastructure comes out streets ahead
At the heart of the government’s Spending Review today was a commitment to developing the infrastructure of the nation. Planning and Building Control Today...
Housing to get boost in Spending Review
Housebuilding is set to receive a boost during the Spending Review today…
The housing crisis is an issue that has been at the forefront of...
The November edition of BIM Today is now live!
Welcome to the Autumn edition of BIM Today – another packed edition examining all that is BIM...
New guidance launched to manage occupational risk
New guidance has been launched to prevent and reduce the number of construction workers contracting occupational diseases…
The Construction Industry Advisory Committee (ConIAC) Health Risks...
Planning changes in the air
Steven Pearson, planning consultant and legal author at legislation analysts Cedrec, discusses the implications of recent changes to UK planning law…
In May 2015, the...
An FM Perspective of BIM in Healthcare
Given the government’s imminent deadline (end 2016) for Level 2 BIM, new and exciting ways of working will soon be available to NHS Estates...
BIM – is infrastructure an exception?
Nick Nisbet examines how we ensure that infrastructure doesn’t get left behind in the BIM journey…
The lorries took the ‘B of the Bang’ sculpture...
How to make your data work in BIM
Karen Alford, BIM Project Executive at the Environment Agency explains how to gather shareable and verifiable data and its key to asset delivery in...
Tekla Launches Structural Designer
Tekla Structural Designer’s sophisticated loading and analysis functionality, fully automated design, high-quality documentation and seamless BIM collaboration allows engineers to analyse and design buildings more efficiently and cost-effectively
Knowledge transformation for BIM implementation
At The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) 5th BIM conference, Nathan Baker, Director of Engineering Knowledge for ICE set out how we can transform...
BIM and the necessity to participate
Raj Chawla, Vice Chair at BIM4SME analyses the challenges, issues, and benefits that the SME community face in the BIM process, arguing that to...
Think you’re innovative in construction?
You might think that offsite construction and modular buildings are something new... nonsense! We’ve been doing it in one way or another for a very long time.
A timber frame manufacturer’s BIM learning curve
As the UK’s first timber frame tool built on Autodesk’s® Revit®, Wolf Systems’ Horizon software brings BIM capabilities to timber frame
Paul Hanney, Senior Designer...
BIM and Lean Construction – a clear synergy
Lauri Koskela, Professor of Construction and Project Management at the University of Huddersfield explains how BIM feeds into the principles of Lean Construction creating...
Archaeology, BIM and large-infrastructure
The incorporation of data from archaeological works into BIM process will reduce capital cost over the project life cycle for large-infrastructure projects
Masters of BIM
A new course in Construction Project Management and BIM from Oxford Brookes University
From September 2015, Oxford Brookes University has offered a new masters course...
A Guardian for BIM
“Building Information Modelling (BIM) is the next generation of digital representation for architectural projects,” says Lance Altizer, Marketing Director for Guardian Europe
The Data Conundrum in BIM!
BIM objects of manufactured building products typically consist of three things: intelligent geometric representation of the product; data about the product (specification, sustainability, etc.,...
€6.4m boost for green building tech
A new project worth some €6.4m has been launched to help the EU meet carbon targets, tackle fuel poverty, and improve green building technologies…
A...
Getting a structured BIM Strategy
In 2011 the UK Government Construction Strategy mandated the use of Level 2 BIM on all public sector projects by 2016
Recently the promotors of...
The 3 key pillars of BIM adoption in the UK
As Peter Hansford nears the end of his Government Chief Construction Adviser role, he provides a retrospective look at the adoption of BIM highlighting...