The UK rail industry’s unique attributes make it “a great place to stimulate innovation” according to the chief executive of leading software development company Bentley Systems.
Bentley Systems chief executive Greg Bentley was speaking at the New Civil Engineer’s UK Rail conference. He said he was excited by challenges, including the…
Around the country construction sites are changing. The days of pegging out key points of a building or a road are numbered and pins are being phased out with machines rising up to take up the challenge.
So-called “machine control” is now creeping onto site and if you do not know…
Almost half of built environment firms are still not using building information modelling – which became mandatory on government projects today – according to research.
The 2016 National BIM Survey by industry information body NBS showed that 46% of respondents were not yet using BIM. All central government departments now require…
Industry figures have set their sights on the next generation of technology – as use of an earlier format became mandatory on government projects.
From today, all central government departments require suppliers to demonstrate in bids for work that they can use building information modelling (BIM) level 2. This means the various…
The government has set out plans to boost use of collaborative building information modelling (BIM) technology in construction.
Increasing the use of BIM Level 2 was cited as a key objective of the Government Construction Strategy 2016-2020 published by the Infrastructure and Projects Authority today. BIM Level 2 requires various parties…
Bechtel, VolkerFitzpatrick and Balfour Beatty have all achieved Level 2 building information modelling (BIM) accreditation.
The accreditation is ahead of the April 4 government deadline which requires all government building and infrastructure projects to be PAS 1192-2 compliant. The PAS 1192-2 standard sets out how to share information on BIM projects…
The Glasgow School of Art (GSA) has released a number of point cloud images of the category A listed Mackintosh Building to aid tenderers for restoration works.
Fire damaged large parts of the building in May 2014. The images were created by experts in 3D visualisation at its own digital design…
Five companies have been shortlisted to carry out restoration works on the fire damaged Glasgow School of Art.
Fire broke out in the Charles Rennie Mackintosh-designed historic building in May 2014, damaging a large part of the west wing and totally destroying the roof. A charitable fund was set up to…
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