Autodesk has launched it describes as the “first truly unified environment for planning, designing, building, and operating”.

Arup and Autodesk are collaborating to tackle carbon management. The partnership is Autodesk’s first with a customer as part of a wider engagement with industry to develop actionable tools and frameworks for decarbonisation.

The digital skills challenge continues to bite, according to the latest research from Autodesk.

Motif, a BIM software start-up founded by former Autodesk executives backed by $46m of investment, aims to eliminate the “fragmentation that has plagued design review processes for decades”.

Ian Atkins, whose BIM career included stints at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Gensler, Heatherwick Studio and Populous, died in January.

Northumbria University has secured £250,000 from the EC to fund research into using AI to improve waste management in construction.

3D printing, drones and robots feature on the fourth Social Housing Emerging Disruptors (SHED) framework.

The level of information need, AI, the handover process, nonsensical contract terms and openBIM dominated the headlines in 2024. The best-read BIMplus stories focused on these topics and more.

What is the openBIM workflow? Does it even really exist. Evandro Alfieri of buildingSMART International clears the confusion.

Can circular construction save us from the ‘conveyor belt of doom’? The November episode of the 21CC podcast talks to those trying to shift industry’s mindset from linear to circular.

Data, ethics and the law are the first topics to consider when bringing AI into a construction project or organisation.

The Grenfell Inquiry has today (4 September) recommended the development of a construction library to hold information “such as data from tests on products and materials, reports on serious fires and academic papers”.

Autodesk has been named as the official design and make platform for the LA28 Olympic and Paralympic Games, and Team USA. 

What’s the future of construction machinery: should we go all in on electrification? Is hydrogen coming on stream anytime soon?

A job title with ‘digital’ in it offers a better salary than one with ‘BIM’ in it. That’s one of the key findings from the Women in BIM Digital Construction Global Work Survey 2024.

Are you certain of how to deliver the information management requirements of the Building Safety Act? If you’re not, then you’re not alone.

Infrastructure engineering software company Bentley Systems has unveiled a new platform for an unlimited scope digital twin of London as the centrepiece of its new ‘experience centre’ and HQ in the City.

There are just two weeks left to enter the Digital Construction Awards 2024. The entry deadline is 5.30pm on Friday 22 March.