Technology & Digital Construction

Gary Pattison, Certification Technical Expert – BIM & Digital Construction at BSI notes the challenges and benefits of digital transformation.

Advances in information sharing technology are enabling good use of digital data to support construction and infrastructure projects.

Innovative and affordable technologies have enabled deployment of the UK’s first remote monitoring system for galvanic cathodic protection (CP) applications.

93% of people in the construction and building industry say that digital affects every part of the build process from buying products to the development and construction stage, so how is that manifesting in real terms?

Sensor-driven, real-time connections between locations and their digital twin offer a new age of building automation. But will construction and building managers see it as a chance to add value?

“Subterranean space is significant – it is a good use of unusable space close to the data source and is effectively invisible."

The University of Bath has an innovative way to use virtual reality to find out how people interact with buildings.

CABE Technical Director Richard Harral considers the impact of rapid technological change on the role of the building engineer.

The Westminster Sustainable Business Forum (WSBF) event, sponsored by the British Board of Agrément, concluded that the industry ‘lagged behind’ others with similar levels of complexity in the uptake of digital technology.

Beverly Quinn, Environmental Engineer at TÜV SÜD, discusses how managing a building’s energy efficiency will only ever be as good as its monitoring system allows.

Amy Hodgetts discusses whether robots and technology render human workers obsolete