When the government advised people to work from home to reduce the spread of Covid-19 in spring 2020, businesses rushed to enhance their IT infrastructure and supply laptops to staff. The aim was to keep running as efficiently as possible via remote working. But it soon became evident that not…
Changing demographics and lifestyles have increased the need to make our built and natural environments smarter, sustainable and connected. Recent events have only served to accelerate this – from the rise in international climate movements, to a greater appreciation of remote working practices.
These changes impact our view of how building…
Need for safer practices that consider the health of workers will drive uptake of remote monitoring technologies for structural health monitoring, according to leading monitoring specialist Chris Emery.
Emery, who has joined Senceive as growth director from Topcon, told NCE that the Covid-19 pandemic is creating a shift in mindset and…
Moving more data to cloud-based connected data environments has been key to Aecom’s continued operation in the US during the Covid-19 pandemic, according to one of the firm’s business leaders.
Aecom senior vice president design consulting services for surface transportation Kevin Cornish spoke about the switch from office to remote working…
The advantages of technology in engineering will be highlighted by the Covid-19 lockdown, according to Sensat chief executive James Dean.
Technology company Sensat is already valued at £47M, overtaking the market value of some traditional engineering companies such as Costain (which is valued at £38M). This is despite Sensat only being…
Technologists are claiming this week that remote operation of construction sites is becoming increasing viable and could be an antidote to the likes of Covid-19.
Development of digital technologies could help the sector deal with pandemics and other employment-damaging events. Construction is one of the physical industries likely to be heavily…
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