Estate management leaders must be digitally fluent and data-literate, argues Daniel Mziray at York Teaching Hospitals Facilities Management. Estate management, as a professional discipline, has historically lagged behind other sectors…
Design phase collaboration is key to successful delivery of projects featuring a high percentage of DfMA and offsite manufacturing. That was Laing O’Rourke’s message at Digital Construction Week (DCW). To…
Sydney student challenge gives future construction leaders hands-on industry experience. By Anoush Chohilli MCIOB, Ben Lunn and Lily Liu. Students from leading universities in Sydney and Newcastle, Australia, recently competed in…
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is drafting guidance on how ‘collaborative robots’ (cobots) can work safely alongside humans. The HSE is working with the Regulatory Innovation Office (RIO) to…
Bluebeam has added new functionality and added more AI-enabled tools to Bluebeam Max. New functions include: enhanced web and mobile capabilities, enabling users to create pdfs, manage pages and perform…
Research by Bellway and the University of Salford has shown that air source heat pumps (ASHPs) can work four times as efficiently as gas boilers in new homes. The findings…
Two construction companies have been fined a total of £79,300 after a scaffolder broke his arm, leg and suffered head lacerations from falling through a roof skylight. James Cranswick, 26,…
BAM has used a helicopter to install 15 air source heat pumps on the upper levels of Broadgate Tower in London. The usual lifting techniques would have been too disruptive…
Close to 90% of UK people (89%) say they know little or nothing about data centres, while 14% say they’ve never heard of them. This is according to a survey…
Modular specialist Reds10 believes it can treble production at its facility in Driffield in the East Riding of Yorkshire through a combination of automation and industrialisation – and by using…