Members of Ridge and Partners, the international consultancy, share how they’re making the most of Bluebeam Revue.

The digitisation of construction product information is not on manufacturers’ radar, according to research from the Plain Language Group. The research reveals that 85% provide information via pdf or hard copy and just 8% have ever made a BIM object.

According to Converge, Data Hub automatically captures, centralises, and analyses all concrete data. That includes concrete delivery tickets, batch records, compliance cube analysis, volumetric data, mix designs, quality assurance data…

United Utilities and Advance Plus (a joint venture between MWH Treatment, Stantec and J Murphy & Sons) have won the Digital Collaboration of the Year award, sponsored by Bluebeam, for their efforts at Oswestry Water Treatment Works.

An AI tool that speeds up generative design has been launched.

Acquiring both professional knowledge and human-like judgement, integrating with business and clarifying professional responsibility: these are the four signposts that a future dominated by AI will be a good one.

Contractor Graham is partnering with software developer Frog Systems to roll out a streaming service to support employee wellbeing.

Anchor, England’s largest not-for-profit provider of housing and care for older people, is digitalising operations across its portfolio.

Supermarket chain Morrisons is using digital twin technology to decarbonise its 4,500 sq m food production facility in Winsford, Cheshire.

ETIM UK, a partnership between the Electrical Distributors’ Association (EDA) and the Builders Merchants Federation, has launched a smart object creator.

This month’s 21CC podcast digs into a complex and difficult question: Should we just stop building?

Recently the BBC website ran a story proposing that technology has not transformed building. The story quoting the far-too-often-quoted McKinsey & Co report that suggests construction is a “digital laggard”, which drew some industry ire. Here, Johnny Furlong of Dalux springs to construction’s defence.

The Digital Construction Awards attracted 165 entries this year, 84 of which have been shortlisted. Here, we detail the shortlisted entries for Best Application of Technology.

The government has unveiled a nationwide campaign to link British jobseekers with employers

Cementation Skanska is mandating the installation of AI-backed human form recognition cameras on its fleet of large-diameter piling rigs and cranes after a successful trial.

Construction professionals in the West Midlands learned at an event in March how the industry is exploiting machine learning and AI solutions.

Lunar construction robots have successfully built a 5m-high communications tower in an environment simulating the surface of the moon.

A round-up of BIM and digital construction stories that you might have missed in the past fortnight, including the EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act moving closer to implementation.