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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...
BSI, BIM, compliance and capability
With the government mandate for all government projects in the UK to be level 2 BIM compliant by 2016, Andrew Butterfield, Global Head of...
First steps in addressing contaminated land risks
With a national drive to redevelop brownfield land across the country, planners and developers are increasingly faced with sites that may have been contaminated...
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...
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
Offsite construction and timber sees massive growth
The move to offsite construction and timber systems has grown significantly due to a shortage in skills…
Leading provider Stewart Milne Timber Systems has reported...
Managing inputs and outputs to the model
A few years ago, an international architectural studio famous for its modern glass and steel designs discovered that building information modelling threatened to break...
Scotland’s chief planner calls for a flexible approach
In a letter, the Scottish government’s chief planner has called on council planners to adopt a positive and flexible approach to private rental applications…
Scotland’s...
Carbon centre becomes first refurb to gain BREAAM Outstanding
The Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation has become the first UK refurbishment scheme to be awarded a BREEAM outstanding rating…
The Edinburgh Centre for Carbon...
BIM for FM – Progressing the case
Mike Packham, Partner of Bernard Williams Associates and BIFM member details how BIM and Soft Landings have progressed recently with guidance from bodies such...
A holistic approach to energy assessments
John Edwards, Trustee of the IHBC argues for an intelligent and holistic approach to energy assessments that have a positive impact on the sustainability...
Brownfield First
Natasha Levanti writes on behalf of the Environmental Industries Commission (EIC) outlining a sustainable way forward in both housing and commercial development of brownfield...
A holistic approach to energy assessments
John Edwards, Trustee of the IHBC argues for an intelligent and holistic approach to energy assessments that have a positive impact on the sustainability...
Brownfield First
Natasha Levanti writes on behalf of the Environmental Industries Commission (EIC) outlining a sustainable way forward in both housing and commercial development of brownfield...
Cumbrian businesses join forces to create ultimate green home
Three Cumbrian businesses have worked together to create the ultimate energy efficient home…
A detached house in Kendal has achieved the second highest score for...
Concrete strengthens resilience to fire and floods
Engineering resilience needn’t be rocket science. The challenge for designers is to be aware of the issues, and to think ahead, as Jenny Burridge...
UK construction firms awarded £1bn sewer contract
Around £1bn worth of contracts have been granted to joint ventures led by Balfour Beatty, Costain, and Laing O'Rourke to construct a major sewer...
BIM and archaeology – a natural fit
MOLA’s Senior Consultant Sophie Jackson, describes three very different applications of BIM: for archaeological interpretation, predictive modelling and heritage management
BIM and archaeology might seem...
BIM for Coastal Defences: Operational and maintenance data
This is the third in a series of interviews with Carl Green, Head of Engineering Services for Wyre Council as we follow the progress...
Warranties vs Insurance
Warranties vs Insurance – which cover is best? Kim Vernau, chief executive officer at BLP Insurance explains
There is, and always has been, debate in...
The imperative open communication standard
In an interview with Lisa Carnwell, Editor for PBC Today, David Jellings, Solibri UK Managing Director and board member of buildingSMART UK and Ireland,...
Warranties vs Insurance – which cover is best?
Kim Vernau, Chief Executive Officer at BLP Insurance explains which is best, warranties or insurance?
PROFILE: Durability challenges for new and existing reinforced concrete structures
Concrete and reinforced/pre-stressed concrete is and will be the main construction material for civil engineering infrastructure. Much more than in the past this construction...
BIM the HS2 way
In an interview with Jon Kerbey, Director of BIM at HS2 he explains to Editor Lisa Carnwell, how BIM will be utilised on the...
PROFILE: Robust and Reliable
OKI printers are durable and resilient to cope with tough construction site environments, but they offer flexibility and creativity into the bargain, says Andrew...
The Green Belt – Nice or Noose?
In considering what the election had in store for planners and developers, I came to the mixed conclusion that we might expect a comparatively...