Category: Digital Construction
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Last chance for early bird bookings at the digital construction Oscars
The Digital Construction Awards, celebrating best practice and innovation in the application of BIM, information management and digital technology in the built and managed environments, are on 1 July at the Brewery in London. The shortlisted entrants from 16 categories will gather on the night to celebrate and find out the winners. View the original…
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Digital Construction Awards 2025: Digital Collaboration of the Year shortlist
The new classroom at Old Newton School Project in Stowmarket needed a system to store and manage trusted data throughout its lifecycle. The school governors partnered with IF_DO Architects and Natural Building Systems to develop an offsite-manufactured solution aligned with their sustainability and health goals. A key driver was ensuring excellent indoor air quality, free…
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BIM in brief 9.5.25: DCW reveals main stage speakers
A round-up of BIM, information management and digital construction stories you might have missed in the past month, including the reveal of the main stage speakers at Digital Construction Week. DCW: big names, big issues on the main stage Digital Construction Week has revealed the 14 speaker sessions on its main stage with big names…
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Digital Construction Awards 2025 finalists: Digital Consultancy of the Year shortlist
The Digital Construction Awards attracted 170-plus entries this year, 85 of which have been shortlisted. Here, we detail the finalists for the Digital Consultancy of the Year award. This category rewards the digital construction consultancy that has demonstrated excellence and helped their client(s) transform their businesses or projects through the adoption of digital processes and…
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Digital Construction Awards 2025: Digital Contractor of the Year shortlist
The Digital Construction Awards attracted 170-plus entries this year, 85 of which have been shortlisted. Here, we detail the finalists for the Digital Contractor of the Year award. This category recognises the contractor – main contractor or specialist – that has demonstrated excellence and transformed their business through the adoption of digital methodologies and technologies.…
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Smooth drive or rough road? The role of ISO 19650 in developing countries
The flexibility of ISO 19650 is key to nurturing the deployment of effective information management in the developing world, according to Birmingham City University associate professor Dr Mohammad Mayouf MCIOB and Tala Damra, managing director of IVY, a digital construction consultancy in Jordan. For many projects of similar scale, the challenge is not in the…
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Digital Construction Awards 2025: Digital Construction Project of the Year shortlist
The Digital Construction Awards attracted 170-plus entries this year, 85 of which have been shortlisted. Here, we detail the finalists for the Digital Construction Project of the Year award. 40 Charter Street, Canary Wharf | KPF/Canary Wharf Group/Aecom/Revizto/Dome Group/Disperse 40 Charter Street at Wood Wharf (Image: Canary Wharf Group) 40 Charter Street is a 52-storey,…
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Digital Construction Awards 2025: AtkinsRéalis, WSP, Laing O’Rourke and McLaren among the finalists
The Digital Construction Awards 2025 attracted more than 170 entries, 85 of which have been shortlisted. AtkinsRéalis either leads or features among nine shortlisted entries. Its work to make electricity transmission substation site visits more productive and safer is shortlisted in three categories: Digital Innovation in Health, Safety and Wellbeing; Digital Innovation in Productivity; and…
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How a digital twin might help Nairobi go green
Making Nairobi, one of Africa’s biggest cities, greener is a vast and complex task. Rod Sweet speaks to a team of researchers proposing a city-wide digital twin that might make it happen. Nairobi City County – comprising mostly Kenya’s capital city, Nairobi – wants to be greener. That means more trees and green space, fewer…
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Autonomous quarry plant tested in Plymouth
AI-powered autonomous quarry plant has been tested at Holcim UK’s quarry in Plymouth. Over two days at Holcim’s Lee Moor sand and gravel quarry, a 23-tonne Develon crawler excavator fitted with autonomous technology from Swiss startup Gravis Robotics was tasked with feeding a hopper of a screener with sand and gravel with a target of…