Welcome to the June 2023 edition of BIM Today. In this issue, we look at the legacy of the Construction Innovation Hub, the role of technology in creating more sustainable design, the power of Knowledge Transfer Partnerships, why organisational strategy is crucial to the delivery of net zero buildings and much more
In our cover story, Keith Waller, programme director of the Construction Innovation Hub, looks back on its four-and-a-half year mission to boost productivity, embed digital ways of working and support more manufacturing solutions to improving the built environment.
He calls on the industry and government to continue building on the Hub’s legacy of collaboration and ambition to go further and faster.
Elsewhere, Neil Thompson, chair of the Institution of Engineering & Technology’s Built Environment Panel, shares his pet hate of streets in towns and cities becoming patchworks of different surfaces after being dug up (and re-dug up) without coordination. How can technology play a role improve the management of the “public good” of our high streets?
Meanwhile, May Winfield of Buro Happold looks at how the increasing range of tech being deployed in construction help to unlock more sustainable design, and Dr Kwadwo Oti-Sarpong of the Cambridge Centre for Smart Infrastructure & Construction examines the organisational strategies deployed in delivering net zero buildings.
There’s much more besides. Here’s a selection of what’s in this edition:
As the Construction Innovation Hub wraps up its operations, programme director Keith Waller looks back on the impact of the Transforming Construction Challenge and urges government and industry to continue pushing for a better built environment.
Neil Thompson, chair of the IET’s Built Environment Panel, explains the role infrastructure technology can play in helping to fix high streets and roads that have been dug up (and re-dug up) across UK towns and cities.
How can the increasing range of technology being deployed in construction help to unlock more sustainable design and meet the climate challenge? May Winfield, global director of commercial, legal and digital risks at Buro Happold, takes a look.
Dr Kwadwo Oti-Sarpong of the Cambridge Centre for Smart Infrastructure & Construction examines the organisational strategies deployed in delivering net zero buildings using manufacturing approaches and digital technologies.
A Knowledge Transfer Partnership between the University of Nottingham and construction consultancy Gleeds is bringing the power of AI to streamline the process for cost estimation.
After nearly half a century in the industry, David Emery of the Supply Chain Sustainability School looks at the evolution of digital models and the innovations that are driving the democratisation of digital data in construction.
The AEC Production Control Room initiative aims to transform project delivery by bringing together multiple datasets from multiple systems into a digital control centre to enable smarter insights and collaboration.
As times change, future generations will begin to measure legacy on the positive environmental and social impact that it has on the world around it. Digital construction may just be the answer, explains Yves Padrines, CEO of the Nemetschek Group.
Information is critical to the successful implementation of technologies like AI and machine learning, yet all too often infrastructure project data is not being reused. Claire Rutkowski of Bentley Systems takes a look.
With a major skills shortage, an ageing workforce and economic uncertainty, digital transformation in construction is needed to weather the industry’s perfect storm, says Luciana Kola of Elecosoft.
