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How AI-driven information management helps mitigate the risks of climate change in construction

Iain — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 13:19:13 +0000

While there has been much focus on how the construction sector can decarbonise and reduce its contribution to climate change, not enough attention has been given to the physical risks a changing climate will bring to construction sites – and how to mitigate them. As global temperatures continue to rise, Britain is likely to experience warmer and wetter winters, as well as hotter and drier…

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Buy vs build

Iain — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 13:08:12 +0000

Moving towards a more digitised approach to construction is one of the key cornerstones of the Construction Playbook, but should companies be looking to develop their own solutions or instead look to specialist manufacturers? Martin Ward believes that while the answer isn’t cut and dried, the underlying principles of digital transformation are essential to the industry’s continued success.

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Solid foundations

Iain — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 14:58:31 +0000

The construction industry’s digital transformation has been a talking point for some time, coming to many companies’ attention in 2016 after the BIM (Building Information Modelling) Level 2 mandate. In recent years, there has been growing awareness of digital transformation from many areas of the industry, yet for some, there is confusion as to what the term means. In fact, ask anyone in the…

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