Emma Hooper has joined RLB Digital as head of information management strategy, the firm’s second heavyweight appointment of the year. The move reunites her with erstwhile Bond Bryan Digital colleague Rob Jackson who joined RLB Digital in January.

3D renders of 2D smartphone videos, wearable proximity sensors and concrete strength sensors feature on Time Magazine’s annual best inventions list.

A smart device with built-in sensors is providing social landlords with greater insight into the environmental conditions of their properties – and helping them engage with their residents to save energy, as Tom Robins, chief executive of Switchee, tells Denise Chevin.

Mandatory digital waste tracking is around the corner – it just might not be the next corner.

A report from Causeway Technologies has found barriers preventing the use of digital tools to drive company sustainability. The report found a third of respondents thought meeting sustainability and ESG…

Small architectural practice Roach Matthews Architects has adopted the Atvero platform for document management.

Mace and Heathrow Airport have deployed Boston Dynamics’ Spot the robot dog to provide 3D laser scans of a 1960s cargo tunnel at the airport.

Bowmer + Kirkland is helping NBS to develop a contractor-friendly iteration of its cloud-based Chorus specification platform.

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

The foundation for more a competent construction industry is data and its effective management, argues Antony Brophy.

Sir Robert McAlpine is set to roll out a 360-degree site monitoring tool from Dalux.

Emma Hooper, associate director and head of R&D at Bond Bryan Digital, is the deserving recipient of the Digital Construction Champion of the Year accolade, which she received at the Digital Construction Awards last night (12 July).

That Uniclass 2015 is the classification system used to organise information across all construction industry disciplines is something of a given, but how else can the system be used?

Experts from carbon- and innovation-focused working group Zero consider the challenge of calculating and reducing carbon.

Thomas Lindner urges the industry to take full advantage of becoming cloud-native.