BIM and asset management, data dictionaries, standards, error-reducing technologies, and parametric design: these are all areas that are complex until explained by an expert in terms we can understand.

Wessex Water is looking to harness more construction data as it gears up to maximise efficiency in a boosted investment programme. Denise Chevin spoke to Adam Bear, Wessex Water’s strategic digital manager.

Autodesk has launched Forma, an industry cloud that it claims will unify workflows across the teams that design, build and operate the built environment.

Autonomous and automated technology needs to enable faster decision-making and deliver lower overhead costs if UK contractors are to adopt it on a wider basis.

An American robotics company, Sarcos, has completed a pilot project that uses robots to install photovoltaic panels.

15 council-led projects have been awarded a total of £3.2m to further digitalise local planning.

North London’s Highgate Cemetery – the final resting place for the likes of Karl Marx, Douglas Adams, George Eliot, and Jeremy Beadle – is being captured digitally as part of a 25-year masterplan to preserve the Victorian landmark.

Are you using consumer messaging apps within project teams? Have you considered their impact in the age of the golden thread? John Ryan has and he offers this warning.

Are you ready to revolutionise the way you design and plan your projects? Text-to-image AI may be the answer, suggests Louis Trümpler.

Lynch Plant Hire used technology and engagement with its staff to meet targets set by the Skanska Costain Strabag JV on HS2, and thus secured victory in the Delivering Net Zero with Digital Innovation category, sponsored by Zero, at the Digital Construction Awards last night (12 July).

At the recent Digital Construction Week, BIMplus took the time to walk through the Start-up Zone. We asked the start-ups about their technology and their businesses. Here, DocuPing co-founder Simon MacArthur gives us the lowdown on his company.

The Digital Construction Awards attracted more than 120 entries, 63 of which have been shortlisted. Here, we detail the Digital Construction Project of the Year, sponsored by Revizto.

Is a strategic approach the key missing ingredient in construction businesses’ digital journey? A new insight report from Autodesk and the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB), Mapping Your Digital Journey, highlights this concern.

The Digital Construction Awards attracted more than 120 entries, 63 of which have been shortlisted. Here, we detail the Delivering Net Zero with Digital Innovation shortlist.

The ISO 19650-4 standard is now out for consultation. Interested parties have until 4 October to give their feedback.