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Why digital transformation often fails in construction

Mark Green, founder and CEO of Change Rebellion, discusses why the biggest barrier to successful digital transformation in the built environment often isn't the technology, but the people expected to use it.

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An FM Perspective of BIM in Healthcare

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BIM – is infrastructure an exception?

Nick Nisbet examines how we ensure that infrastructure doesn’t get left behind in the BIM journey… The lorries took the ‘B of the Bang’ sculpture...

How to make your data work in BIM

Karen Alford, BIM Project Executive at the Environment Agency explains how to gather shareable and verifiable data and its key to asset delivery in...

Tekla Launches Structural Designer

Tekla Structural Designer’s sophisticated loading and analysis functionality, fully automated design, high-quality documentation and seamless BIM collaboration allows engineers to analyse and design buildings more efficiently and cost-effectively

Knowledge transformation for BIM implementation

At The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) 5th BIM conference, Nathan Baker, Director of Engineering Knowledge for ICE set out how we can transform...

BIM and the necessity to participate

Raj Chawla, Vice Chair at BIM4SME analyses the challenges, issues, and benefits that the SME community face in the BIM process, arguing that to...

Think you’re innovative in construction?

You might think that offsite construction and modular buildings are something new... nonsense! We’ve been doing it in one way or another for a very long time.

A timber frame manufacturer’s BIM learning curve

As the UK’s first timber frame tool built on Autodesk’s® Revit®, Wolf Systems’ Horizon software brings BIM capabilities to timber frame Paul Hanney, Senior Designer...

BIM and Lean Construction – a clear synergy

Lauri Koskela, Professor of Construction and Project Management at the University of Huddersfield explains how BIM feeds into the principles of Lean Construction creating...

Archaeology, BIM and large-infrastructure

The incorporation of data from archaeological works into BIM process will reduce capital cost over the project life cycle for large-infrastructure projects

Masters of BIM

A new course in Construction Project Management and BIM from Oxford Brookes University From September 2015, Oxford Brookes University has offered a new masters course...

A Guardian for BIM

“Building Information Modelling (BIM) is the next generation of digital representation for architectural projects,” says Lance Altizer, Marketing Director for Guardian Europe

The Data Conundrum in BIM!

BIM objects of manufactured building products typically consist of three things: intelligent geometric representation of the product; data about the product (specification, sustainability, etc.,...

Getting a structured BIM Strategy

In 2011 the UK Government Construction Strategy mandated the use of Level 2 BIM on all public sector projects by 2016 Recently the promotors of...

The 3 key pillars of BIM adoption in the UK

As Peter Hansford nears the end of his Government Chief Construction Adviser role, he provides a retrospective look at the adoption of BIM highlighting...

Urban challenges – realising smart buildings and infrastructure

In an interview with Paul Griffiths, Head of BIM Strategy and Development at Ordnance Survey, he explains how geospatial data, the Smart City and...

Increasing number of workers utilise BIM

According to a new poll  an increasing number of workers are using building information modelling as part of the construction process… A survey conducted by...

BIM – re-thinking conventional practice

Richard Shennan, Chair of ACE BIM Engagement and Support Group muses on re-thinking the boundaries between consulting engineers and contractors – a key step...

50 years of Architectural Technology

As the Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists celebrates its 50th anniversary, Graham Paterson MCIAT and Tahar Kouider MCIAT summarise how the organisation is embracing...

Design-led BIM

The practice Jonathan Reeves Architecture (JRA) has been using Building Information Modelling (BIM) techniques for a number of years. The practice is running the latest release of Vectorworks Architect, which can be used for full BIM workflows

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