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Construction Skills Mission Board to help recruit extra 100,000 workers by 2029

Established by the Construction Leadership Council, the Board will support the government's £625m investment to recruit an additional 100,000 workers by the end of this Parliament.
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Gallagher introduces voice-operated risk assessment app

The first of its kind in the UK - a voice-operated risk assessment app called RiskTalk - has been introduced for construction businesses by Gallagher.

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A Euro Vision: What Brexit could mean for planning and building projects

Remain or Brexit? With the European Union (EU) Referendum looming, the potential implications and debates surrounding the two choices – whether to stay or go...
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Connect4 Becomes First United Arab Emirates Printing Company to Install HP Pagewide Technology

Connect4 broke new ground today with the installation of an HP Pagewide XL 8000, the first HP Pagewide printer to be installed in the...
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Installation of HP PageWide XL 8000 Printer Allows Sadiq to Target New Business Opportunities

HP announced that UAE-based print service provider, Sadiq, has installed an HP PageWide XL 8000, the company’s first HP printer Sadiq provides print services and...
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The importance of BIM certification

Drew Wiggett, Head of Production Information, assesses how important BIM certification for BIM objects is for the construction industry… There is no doubt that awareness...

BIM3 Initiatives Launched by Government – but what about BIM2?

The government has launched its building information modelling (BIM) level 3 initiatives with a view to implement in 2025 and aim of improving data...

Are you ready for BIM?

Kirsty Walker, Marketing Manager of Man and Machine discuss how making the right choices to begin your own BIM journey and maximise the return...
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Realising a BIM solution

Building Information Modelling, Computer- Aided Design, and Visualization projects are becoming more complex and demanding, is your hardware is up to the challenge? Enhanced workstations...

PROFILE: Business Collaborator for BIM

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...

PROFILE: BIM – what’s stopping you from starting?

As the industry moves forward, so are many companies with their BIM projects and pilots. There is however, still a reluctance to embrace the...

The BIM menu of information

Steve Thompson, Chair of BIM4M2 and Market Manager for Construction and Infrastructure at Tata Steel discusses the game-changing potential in efficiency improvements that BIM...

PROFILE: Wienerberger BIM objects now downloadable directly from its website

1 April 15: Wienerberger, the leading provider of wall, roof and landscaping innovations, launched its fully functional Building Information Modelling (BIM) portal on its...

Large scale refurbishment and retrofit using BIM

Neill Ryan, CEO of VRM Technology Limited asks if large scale refurbishment and retrofit using BIM is worth it? Neill Ryan is CEO of VRM...

BIM for surveys – a model of excellence

Through a combination of its highly experienced, knowledgeable personnel and the latest cutting-edge technologies, Murphy Surveys is at the forefront of delivering expert survey...

BIM — The bigger picture

John Adams, BIM Product Owner at 4Projects by Viewpoint describes what BIM means… At the Viewpoint North American user conference in Portland Oregon earlier this...

The practical challenges of BIM

Hinesh Mistry, Water Global Technology Leader – BIM, at CH2M HILL outlines the current challenges of BIM, but also the confidence within industry that...

Putting the ‘I’ in Existing Building BIM

Studio Klaschka have been working with Kier Construction and the Clearbox Team to provide a series of existing building BIMs. Having been producing these...

PROFILE: BIMXtra delivers an integrated digital handover

Andy Boutle, BIM Manager at Kier Construction Eastern outlines the benefits of using BIMXtra… In what is otherwise a complex manual process, Kier Construction and...

PROFILE: Innovation in Vectorworks BIM

Read Axiom Architects story on getting started with BIM… THE PRACTICE Since Axiom Architects was founded in 1986, the practice has grown from its origins in...

Getting our BIM data in order

Martyn Horne of the Landscape Institute’s BIM Working Group explains why BIM data in the form of COBie requirements is not something to fear… To...