Lauren Parsons, business analyst with FM Conway, is the deserving winner of the Rising Star accolade at the Digital Construction Awards 2023.

A round-up of BIM and digital construction stories that you might have missed in the past month, including Women in BIM’s salary survey.

This category will reward the digital consultancy that has demonstrated excellence and helped their clients transform their businesses or projects through the adoption of digital processes and technologies.

The Chartered Institute of Building announced today that it is postponing CIOB Awards until next year. The new entry deadline is 31 August 2023.

Colas is set to deploy its smart roads technology on its National Highways Area 9 motorway maintenance and response contract, covering the West Midlands and surrounding counties.

A new AI-driven painting and decorating robot could help address a shortage of skilled painters and decorators on larger-scale housing projects, its backers claim.

Compliance with the golden thread can’t be achieved simply by procuring software or by overloading the building safety regulator with too much data.

Countryside has introduced anti-collision technology from Safety Shield to prevent accidents on its housebuilding sites.

3D scanning has been used on a major restoration project at Christianity’s most hallowed site: the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.

Sir Robert McAlpine is countering the growing threat of cyber attacks with self-learning AI technology.

Autonomous drones and robots could be the answers to the UK Armed Forces’ challenge when faced with a body of water to cross.

Taking a Design for Manufacture and Assembly approach is necessary to ensure successful offsite construction.

Buildots, the AI construction tech company, has announced a $30m (£21.5m) Series B investment round.

An Atkins-Jacobs JV will lead trials this summer of new technology to enable the development of self-monitoring and self-maintaining bridges. Technologies likely to be tested include AI and machine learning.