£100k fine for HAVS inaction
A firm has been fined £100,000 for failing to act on warnings about dangers to workers using hand-held power tools...
Edinburgh-based firm Alexander Dennis Ltd...
Summer edition of PBC Today Northern Ireland is live!
Welcome to the Summer edition of Planning and Building Control Today Northern Ireland...
We are only a few months into the biggest planning and local...
Domestic roofline installer prosecuted for fall
A roofline installer has been found guilty for failing to plan work at height after an employee sustained serious injuries from a fall...
Roger Smith...
Planning and engagement for growth
Stuart Mearns, Head of Planning and Rural Development for Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park details the wider benefits of investing in engagement...
Wates Group appoints new CFO
Former Crossrail Finance Director will join the Wates Group as the new Chief Financial Officer, it has emerged...
David Allen is set to join the...
Interserve wins £200m defence rehab contract
Interserve has been chosen as the preferred bidder for a new armed forces rehabilitation centre located near Loughborough...
A £200m Defence and National Rehabilitation Centre...
Disabled access exemption can pose trip hazard
With most regulations, an offer of exemption can easily encourage temptation.
The provision which can allow exemption from certain access requirements within the Equality Act...
Scottish construction shows growth in confidence
The latest quarterly survey of Scottish builders shows confidence has soared to record heights…
The Scottish construction sector has seen confidence increase by six points...
The RICS BIM4SME Awards 2015
The first RICS BIM4SME Awards ceremony took place last night at the Westminster Boating Base venue in London, celebrating the best of BIM in...
Are you ready for BIM?
Kirsty Walker, Marketing Manager of Man and Machine discuss how making the right choices to begin your own BIM journey and maximise the return...
Realising a BIM solution
Building Information Modelling, Computer- Aided Design, and Visualization projects are becoming more complex and demanding, is your hardware is up to the challenge?
Enhanced workstations...
PROFILE: Business Collaborator for BIM
Adopt our Semantic BIM Platform today and realise the benefits for your asset’s lifetime…
Data, data, data
Admit it. When you think of BIM the first...
PROFILE: BIM – what’s stopping you from starting?
As the industry moves forward, so are many companies with their BIM projects and pilots. There is however, still a reluctance to embrace the...
The BIM menu of information
Steve Thompson, Chair of BIM4M2 and Market Manager for Construction and Infrastructure at Tata Steel discusses the game-changing potential in efficiency improvements that BIM...
PROFILE: Wienerberger BIM objects now downloadable directly from its website
1 April 15: Wienerberger, the leading provider of wall, roof and landscaping innovations, launched its fully functional Building Information Modelling (BIM) portal on its...
Large scale refurbishment and retrofit using BIM
Neill Ryan, CEO of VRM Technology Limited asks if large scale refurbishment and retrofit using BIM is worth it?
Neill Ryan is CEO of VRM...
BIM for surveys – a model of excellence
Through a combination of its highly experienced, knowledgeable personnel and the latest cutting-edge technologies, Murphy Surveys is at the forefront of delivering expert survey...
BIM — The bigger picture
John Adams, BIM Product Owner at 4Projects by Viewpoint describes what BIM means…
At the Viewpoint North American user conference in Portland Oregon earlier this...
The practical challenges of BIM
Hinesh Mistry, Water Global Technology Leader – BIM, at CH2M HILL outlines the current challenges of BIM, but also the confidence within industry that...
Open standards for open BIM
Dr Anne Kemp, Chair, BIM4IUK and Vice Chair of BuildingSMART reflects on recent discussions surrounding BIM in terms of the route to a Digital Built Britain and open standards
How to move faster: Collaborating in the cloud
Tracey Saunders, Sales & Marketing Manager at Asite details collaboration in the cloud - Adoddle has quickly become the collaboration platform for many
Putting the ‘I’ in Existing Building BIM
Studio Klaschka have been working with Kier Construction and the Clearbox Team to provide a series of existing building BIMs. Having been producing these...
PROFILE: BIMXtra delivers an integrated digital handover
Andy Boutle, BIM Manager at Kier Construction Eastern outlines the benefits of using BIMXtra…
In what is otherwise a complex manual process, Kier Construction and...
PROFILE: Innovation in Vectorworks BIM
Read Axiom Architects story on getting started with BIM…
THE PRACTICE
Since Axiom Architects was founded in 1986, the practice has grown from its origins in...
Getting our BIM data in order
Martyn Horne of the Landscape Institute’s BIM Working Group explains why BIM data in the form of COBie requirements is not something to fear…
To...
BIM – the digital wave detox
John Tebbit, Managing Director at Robust Details Ltd outlines his concerns about BIM and how the digital wave should be seen as the equivalent...