To mark International Women’s Day on Sunday (8 March), Women in BIM global vice chair Marie Grieve reveals the five top tips for a successful mentorship.

Buildots and Revizto now integrate, allowing construction teams to combine the former’s AI-driven performance tracking and analysis while managing project communication and collaboration through the latter’s platform. 

National Highways is testing the Soil Link Materials Exchange Platform to drive circular principles on its projects and supply chain.

Are you happy at work? Could you be? Should you be?

Survey results show a higher proportion of men secure the highest salaries compared to women

Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and the University of Maine have unveiled a 3D-printed, recyclable, natural-material floor cassette they say is strong enough to replace steel-and-concrete floors in multi-storey buildings.

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

Bryden Wood, the integrated architectural and engineering practice, brought us the concept of a platform approach to design, which was adopted by government for its prisons programme. Since then it has evolved the idea of templated designs to offer standardisation and flexibility to suit varied sites. Jaimie Johnston MBE, a board director at the practice and brains behind the approach, brings BIMplus up to date.

The Digital Construction Awards attracted 165 entries this year, 84 of which have been shortlisted. Here, we detail the shortlisted entries for the Digital Innovation in Asset Management award.

Technology and acting on the data it produces is helping IHP, the Vinci Building/Sir Robert McAlpine, to transform healthcare construction, according to Mark Gibson of Sir Robert McAlpine.

There are six weeks left to the Digital Construction Awards – the industry’s Oscars.

Procore is sponsoring the Digital Construction Awards 2024.

Tunnelling and underground construction technology start-up HyperTunnel has secured government funding to demonstrate its swarm construction technique by building an underpass.

As the UK’s national standards body, BSI publishes a plethora of standards to support those who operate within the built environment. Here, Dan Rossiter FCIAT, sector lead at BSI as well as vice-president technical at the Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists, highlights three in particular set to have an impact in 2024.

In the third in a short series of Q&As to mark the turning of the year, BIM Academy associate and Women in BIM regional lead Dr Melanie Robinson steps into the spotlight and reveals her highlights from 2023 and her hopes and plans for 2024 – and recommends a podcast that could help your career.

A building control surveyor who kept working after being diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer in 2019 is calling on employers to be flexible with staff battling cancer and other long-term illnesses.

Graham’s re-evaluation and transformation of its digital construction strategy, with a clear people focus, was singled out for acclaim by the judges who gave the company the Contractor of the Year prize – sponsored by Procore – at the Digital Construction Awards last night (4 July).

Rather than being a vision of the future, machine control should be adopted en masse to help tackle construction’s current problems.