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Where performance meets practice: The Building Envelope Stage at UKCW Birmingham

UKCW Birmingham will feature the Building Envelope Stage, read more about the scheduled speakers, including Nigel Banks of Octopus Energy.

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ICW Group – Building Warranties and Building Control

ICW Group – Providing Building Warranties and Building Control with excellent customer service, we provide first-rate customer service.

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SpecifiedBy: Taking the Building Regulations Online

The team at SpecifiedBy recently converted the Building Regulations Approved Documents for England & Wales into web format. Founder Darren Lester talks through some...

Product data templates for manufacturers

The initiative by CPA, BIM4M2, CIBSE and NBS to align their work on product data templates is a welcome move. Manufacturers already have lots...

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...

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...

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...

There’s No “I” in BIM

Jason Whittall, Director of Architecture & BIM for One Creative Environments Ltd argues that the ‘I’ in BIM needs to be taken seriously if...

Business Collaborator: Our Semantic BIM Platform

Adopt our Semantic BIM Platform today and realise the benefits for your asset’s lifetime… Data, data, data Admit it. When you think of BIM the first...

Collaborative discounting in the construction industry

Suppliers in the construction industry are well used to having to drop their prices in order to remain competitive and then face the challenge...

The specialist contractor – BIM ready?

Joe Cilia, Technical Manager at FIS considers whether specialist contractors are ready for the government’s mandating of level 2 BIM on centrally procured projects...

Invigilatis: An FM Perspective of BIM in Healthcare

The journey/vision Given the government’s imminent deadline (end 2016) for Level 2 BIM, new and exciting ways of working will soon be available to NHS...

BIM tools are the key enabler

Ian Chapman, Director of the NBS National BIM Library, outlines how the use of BIM tools is enabling the industry to embrace BIM… With less...

Are you BIM ready?

The UK Government’s deadline for the construction sector to pre-qualify for participation in public sector construction programmes by being ‘BIM Ready’ by April 2016...

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.,...

Planning authorities need to give Welsh language consideration

Provisions have come into force today to ensure the Welsh language is considered when preparing or revising local development plans… Planning authorities will have to...

A welcome boost for the steel industry

Natasha Levanti, ACE Group Communications Executive details how British steel suppliers may get a welcome boost from new procurement guidelines announced by the UK...

Five Ways to Improve Employee Engagement in Construction

Jonathan Austin, Founder & CEO of Best Companies outlines the top five ways to improve employee engagement in construction… The success of any organisation is...

The challenge of recruiting more women

Recently-installed IET President Naomi Climer has made it her mission to improve recruitment of women into engineering and technology roles… Name a famous engineer or...

Addressing the UK Housing Shortage

When we consider the problem of the UK housing shortage, we must also consider all the constraints traditional homebuilding methods face

Inspiring engineers of the future

Tamzin Caffrey, Head of Communications at EngineeringUK sheds light on what needs to be done to meet the future demand for engineers in the...

Japanese knotweed control

Tackling and controlling the spread of Japanese knotweed is a problematic issue that cannot be ignored. Here, The Property Care Association Invasive Weed Group...

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