To meet the numerous challenges property managers face, now is the time to embrace geospatial data, declares Diarmuid Murphy.

WSP has completed a feasibility study of a new commercial magnet recycling plant in Belfast which could help lower dependence on rare earth elements from China.

As hundreds of the UK’s PFI contracts approach their expiry dates, the importance of meticulous asset base data management cannot be overstated, explains Sircle director Anthony Walker.

Structural Steel Design Awards 2024 – commendations

The new Bakerloo line ticket hall at Paddington London Underground Station has opened after a team including Mace completed a 12-year-long major revamp.

Dublin City University is using a digital twin of its campus to test smart city technology, bringing AI and a digital twin together.

The GIIG (formerly the Government & Industry Interoperability Group, now part of nima) has given a cautious welcome to the recent announcement by Autodesk and Nemetschek that the two software giants have entered an interoperability agreement.

When the Roman Catholic Church needed a digital twin of St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City, it turned to Italian project management consultancy Italferr. Aude Camus of Bentley Systems reveals how the firm saved modelling time and delivered the twin ahead of schedule.

The University of Liverpool has made a five-figure operational cost saving thanks to using a digital twin as part of a refurbishment project.

A robotics company and tech startup are using automated modular construction to build affordable and low-energy timber homes.

Standards, the golden thread, digital twins, a TV documentary and, yes, AI and ChatGPT dominated the headlines last year. The best-read BIM stories of 2023 touched on these topics and more.

Shortlist for the Digital Construction Awards 2023 Delivering Net Zero with Digital Innovation award category.

The DCA Collaboration category recognises the best use of digitalisation/digital methodologies and/or technologies to enhance collaboration between two or more organisations on a project, at any level of the supply chain.

Topcon Positioning Systems has launched Digital Layout, an “easy-to-use” building construction software to enable more contractors to adopt a digital layout workflow for increased efficiency, accuracy, and productivity.

Arcadis has partnered with AI and modelling specialist, Cobalt Water Global, to create a tool that will help the wastewater sector reduce the amount of ozone-depleting N2O it releases into the environment.