Knowledge

More than two years after the Government’s 2016 mandate for collaborative 3D BIM on all publicly-funded projects, we want to know your thoughts on BIM. Have you adopted it? How embedded is it into your organisation? How is the industry doing at defining level 3 BIM?

Phil Simpson takes a look back at the last 12 month with BIM Alliance and pulls out his top take aways for 2018.

Digital Information Specialist at Bond Bryan, Emma Hooper, gives us her view on what needs to change when it comes to value engineering. 

The October 2018 Update has changes to 5 tables in response to user requests.

In a new series of articles we ask city dwellers - including artists, gamers and sound designers - how their work informs the way they see the built environment

In a new series of articles we ask city dwellers - including artists, gamers and sound designers - how their work informs the way they see the built environment

Renby Ltd looks at the types of workplace dust, the conditions dust can cause and what employers must do to prevent them

Construction Operations Building Information Exchange (COBie) is a non-proprietary data format for the publication of a subset of building information models (BIM) focused on delivering asset data as distinct from geometric information. Stephen Hamil examines COBie and discusses the role of CAD and master specification systems in creating this data model.

NBS, the leading provider of technical information, specification and BIM tools, has released a new survey looking into the use of digital technologies across the industry.

We look at some of the real issues the construction industry faces, and how digitisation can help address them.

At our recent series of NBS Discover events around the UK, we held roundtable discussions with delegates. We wanted to use these events to ask for your thoughts about a number of relevant industry themes including collaboration, specification, office knowledge and customer support.

At the recent Discover events there were a number of presentations from NBS customers. We take a look at their stories in respect to how they are integrating NBS into their existing workflows.