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Explore the current state of sustainability in the UK construction industry based on the results from a comprehensive survey conducted by NBS.
The construction industry faces growing challenges when building on increasingly complex brownfield sites. Alongside the need for effective waterproofing, developers and contractors must now address ...
While the new building safety regime hasn’t fundamentally changed what requirements higher-risk buildings (HRBs) must meet to comply with the Building Regulations, it has significantly increased the ...
For architects and specifiers, flooring details can have a significant impact on the safety, accessibility, durability and overall performance of a building. Yet the technical considerations ...
The Basics The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) have published new “2018” versions of their two Building Contracts, originally released in November 2014. The contracts come in two ...
Measure, compare and reduce upfront embodied carbon using trusted UK data and pre-built assemblies.
Through Government authority, policies can ensure that reducing carbon emissions is a matter of law and all within the UK must comply. Some of the objectives set out by the Government include ...
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January February March April May June July August September October November December February 2018 28 February and 1 March BIM Show Live Where? Boiler Shop, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne What? Over the course ...
When it comes to specifying data requirements on construction projects many Asset Information Requirements (AIRs) can often be found wanting.
Trant was engaged by the MOD as contractor for the Mid Atlantic Power Project, a £55 million project in respect of the construction of a power station in the Falkland Islands. Mott MacDonald was ...
To make BIM effective, information needs to be made available when it is needed and it must be provided to a satisfactory quality.
A federated model is a combined Building Information Model that has been compiled by amalgamating several different models into one (or importing one model into another).
Influential reports as far back as the 1930s have highlighted the problems inherent in the construction industry but it wasn’t until 2011 that they proffered a solution that could deliver the step ...
I’m pleased to invite you to take part in our fourth survey covering construction contracts used during the past 12 months.
The construction industry is on a mission. A mission to get better project outcomes. A mission fuelled by better communication and sharing of information.
The CIC Building Information Model (BIM) Protocol - Standard Protocol for use in projects using Building Information Models was published by the Construction Industry Council (CIC) in 2013.