A round-up of BIM and digital construction stories that you might have missed in the past fortnight.
Smart manhole sensors
Smart manhole sensor start-up ManholeMetrics was named a winner at the Innovate UK Young Innovators Awards. The start-up supplies sensors in smart manholes that monitor wastewater levels. It is supported by Thames Water and Yorkshire Water, among others, and plans to deploy a number of sensors for field trials in the coming months.
Glider grows leadership team
Glider has appointed John Simpson as its new head of information management, and David Hunt as head of customer success. Hunt joins from Autodesk, where he worked for more than four years as a principal customer success manager running several global accounts. Simpson joins Glider after seven years at Robertson Group, where he worked as head of digital construction and regional BIM coordinator.
NBS acquires Schumann International
NBS has acquired specification consultancy Schumann International. The consultancy, to be known as NBS Schumann, will provide a specification consultancy service to NBS customers via the NBS Chorus platform.
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