Four different perspectives on how digital is transforming construction is being offered to delegates at the Digital Construction North 2025 seminar programme.
The one-day event hosted at Manchester Central, on 19 November, is organised along four themes and hubs. These include: information management, including BIM; transformation, showcasing people and projects; innovation, emerging and experimental ideas; and technology, in practice with live demos.
The event, which is only in its second year, will bring together more than 1,000 northern professionals and host more than 50 exhibitors and 75 speakers from the likes of Women in BIM, Nima, RLB Digital, Okana, BIMBox, AtkinsRéalis, Chetwood Architects, Jacobs, and Turner & Townsend.
More than 50 CPD-accredited sessions will be available to attendees who can claim eight CPD hours for a full day’s participation. While the event is free, tickets are limited, and those wishing to attend are vetted and advised to book ahead.
Karolina Orechinni, event director at Digital Construction North, said the event was specifically designed for professionals, “who are leading projects and driving real change. The focus is on practical learning and collaboration – helping attendees turn digital ambition into on-the-ground results.”
Seminars will cover topics such as weaving the golden thread, the best means of saving carbon, and smarter delivery through digital.
More highlights:
10.30-11.00: BIMBox’s Arva Arsiwala and Louis Cowan will “solve the IFC puzzle”, taking you from “chaos to clarity”.
11.30-12:00: In an intriguing move for a software vendor, a quartet of Procore’s management team will deliver a session that will reveal “why construction needs to lead its own tech revolution”.
11.30-11.45: In the first part of a 4D double whammy in the Transformation Hub, MWH Treatment’s Clare Taylor and Melanie Chung will focus on 4D model-based planning for time-critical asset commissioning.
11.45-12.00: More 4D with Iain Riley from John Sisk & Son, who will argue that 4D is the foundation of successful delivery.
11.45-11.55: On the Tech Stage, Tom Neighbours of 12d UK will detail CDE 2.0.
12:00-12.30: Lucas Cusack from Glider, in the Transformation Hub, will reveal the “dirty truth about what happens to your 100% compliant building information models after handover”.
12:00-12.30: Emma Hooper and Rob Jackson from RLB Digital will offer a “fresh take on how documents fit into an ISO 19650 workflow” and “will challenge how we define, structure and manage documents in a digital-first world”.
2:00-2.30: Okana’s Dr Melanie Robinson and Dan Black will demonstrate “how a highly intricate real-world project was navigated using a structured golden thread approach, turning fragmented information into a clear, regulator-ready safety narrative”.
3:00-3.30: On the Information Management Stage, Fran Parkins from Rider Levett Bucknall will highlight the importance of the missing pillar of digital transformation: namely, practicality.
4:00-4.30: Also on the Information Management Stage, Johnny Furlong from Dalux promises a PowerPoint-free demonstration of how to embed RIBA trackers into the golden thread.
