Proposals to dispense with building control procedural requirements for the drilling of holes for fibre-optic cabling have been met with concern by the Fire Protection Association (FPA). In its response…
Making children’s safety a core principle of how places are designed, built and managed is the focus of a new toolkit published by the NSPCC this spring. Mott MacDonald’s Sarah…
How should construction managers prepare for medical emergencies and trauma response on site, and what rules do they need to follow? Mike Dowson explains A bleed control kit on a…
150 cubic metres mixed with Ecocem cement makes capping beam for a contiguous pile wall at the Shipley Depot. The pour is being carried out in 12 phases over 12…
The Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) is currently seeking members for its Heritage Advisory Panel. The professional body is looking for candidates who work in the UK heritage sector and have a…
You’re a leading SME contractor and want to improve your construction management systems, but you can’t afford enterprise-level software from the big software developers. So what do you do? If…
Developer steps on the accelerator as a new town and a Universal theme park juice travel demand along the university ‘supercluster’. Artist’s render of the new eastern entrance at Bletchley…
The London Borough of Harrow is building a digital twin of its key sites that is already delivering cost savings. Using Site Scan drone software from Esri UK, Harrow is capturing…
A new nima working group is set to develop a framework and the associated tools to enable insurers to use structured information to evaluate project risk. The working group falls…
To create a built environment system that can continuously learn, retain knowledge and improve over time, construction must learn five key lessons. So argues Sam Stacey, director of A7C and…