BIM in brief 05.04.22: CIOB shares HS2’s innovations

With the Centre for Digital Built Britain coming to an end, the UK BIM Framework has changed its governance to a memorandum of understanding with the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, the Construction Leadership Council and the Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure joining as collaborators alongside BSI and the UK BIM Alliance. 

Construction is among the three business sectors least likely to have appropriate cyber security measures in place, according to the government’s Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2022. Construction businesses are also the least likely to have a board director or trustee with responsibility for cyber security. The survey was published alongside another call from government for businesses to boost their cyber security.

A robotics and AI hub has opened at Whitehaven, close to Sellafield. Known as RAICo1, it will ultimately be used by Sellafield Ltd, its supply chain partners and academia to develop the technology needed to decommission Sellafield and other sites like it.

Three quarters of the respondents to Procore’s annual ROI survey said Procore helps them to reduce rework, on average by 16%.

Dr Mark Bew MBE has become CEO of digital twin specialist Cohesive Group. The latter is the Bentley Systems subsidiary that 18 months ago bought PCSG, the digital built environment consultancy founded in 2000 by Katherine Bew and chaired by Dr Mark Bew. He also chaired the government’s BIM Task Group for six years.

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