Carbon and sustainability data is really commercial and quality data by another name, argues Seddon’s Louis Saunderson. As procurement tightens back towards hard value for money, contractors who treat carbon simply as compliance are leaving useful evidence unused.

Keepmoat has adopted JCB’s digital fleet monitoring tool, LiveLink, to help cut carbon emissions across all 66 of its live construction sites.

Heathrow is using One Click LCA’s decarbonisation platform in planning new construction or renovation projects.

The government and industry must address the inconsistency of embodied carbon data and its availability for the UK to meet net zero targets, Aecom states in a report for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG).

London Gatwick has created a new geospatial platform using Esri UK’s GIS technology to reduce accidental strikes on buried utilities and enable better management of the airport’s biodiversity.

The forthcoming nima virtual conference will tackle the whole life value of data, circularity and sustainability, data ownership and AI.

Ramboll has launched CO2mpare, an open access carbon analysis benchmark database.

Aberdeenshire civil engineering company Nicol of Skene is using machine control systems to create a giant thistle-shaped maze on the grounds of Balmoral Castle.

If you turn data into information, you can use that information to exert greater control over a construction project. That was one of the key messages from Buildots at a recent Global Construction Summit webinar focused on performance-driven construction management.