A round-up of BIM and digital construction stories that you might have missed in the past seven days.

The Balfour Beatty Vinci joint venture (BBV JV) has overseen the first tunnelling breakthrough on HS2.

Balfour Beatty is rolling out automatic cone laying machines (ACLM) for its highways operations.

Housing providers have a wealth of data at their disposal to help improve their asset management, John Fisher of ARK Consultancy explains to Denise Chevin.

The Midland Met hospital in Birmingham, construction of which faltered after Carillion collapsed, will now not open until 2024.

No, it’s not something from the minds of Pixar: the image above is of Pipebots, micro robots designed to inspect buried pipes, water pipes in particular.

A selection of the best images in construction from the past month.

Balfour Beatty must face a legal claim for costs to remediate cladding on a residential scheme in Dorset, a judge has ruled.

Five years ago, a Mace report analysed the built environment’s journey to Industry 4.0; here Matt Gough reviews offers the first part of a two-part review of the industry’s progress.

Balfour Beatty, Ford, and the Lighthouse Construction Industry Charity have started a new campaign to combat suicide rates in construction.

80 Goodhall Street is a mixed-use development in west London. Architect airc.design had to respond to some challenging design changes that affected the project in RIBA Stages 3 to 5, so it leaned on Archicad.

The Digital Construction Awards attracted more than 120 entries, 63 of which have been shortlisted. Here, we detail the shortlist for Digital Innovation In Design.

The Digital Construction Awards attracted more than 120 entries, 63 of which have been shortlisted. Here, we detail the Best Use of Data shortlist. 

One year into his new role as technical director, Mark Buckle talks about the forthcoming launch of Tilbury Douglas Connect and why LIDAR is the key to efficiency.

RMD Kwikform has supported the construction of huge concrete shafts for the Thames Tideway super sewer in King George’s Park and Dormay Street in London.

As the week draws to a close, CM rounds up the construction stories you may have missed over the past seven days.

NHS Scotland is set to digitise the design, build, and maintenance of its assets with the help of an interactive toolkit from the Construction Innovation Hub (CIH).

Brent Cross Town, a joint venture between Argent Related and Barnet Council, is using Site Scan drone flight management and image processing software from Esri UK to improve the efficiency of groundworks surveys and how it communicates progress of the £7bn development.