£5.5 million EU research project could turn telecommunication fibre-optic cables into sensors to detect natural disaster.

Employing a document controller and giving them the right tools is an overlooked part of information management. Ignore them at your peril.

A round-up of BIM and digital construction stories you might have missed in the past fortnight, including Buildots raising $15m investment.

Balfour Beatty’s Midland Metropolitan University Hospital won Digital Construction Project of the Year troph at the Digital Construction Awards.

From digital twins to sleeping digital twins! The latter is a theory that posits that dormant BIM models can be evolved into digital twins to drive down carbon.

How can the urban digital twin be kick-started? With global examples, Helber López of Bentley Systems Germany sets out his plan.

Science and education publisher Springer Nature is calling for digital construction experts to submit proposals for books to be published.

Laing O'Rourke with BDP and SolibriDigital win Digital Collaboration of the Year at the Digital Construction Awards 2023.

The Digital Construction Awards attracted more than 140 entries, 62 of which have been shortlisted. Here we detail the shortlist for the Delivering Net Zero with Digital Innovation award.

Digital tools are the key to future business growth, according to findings in Autodesk’s 2023 State of Design & Make Report.

What’s coming your way this year? What new technology and approaches will impact your operations? Dr Marzia Bolpagni details the top five digital trends set to shape construction in 2023.

Andrew Gamblen has joined 3D model viewing specialist Dalux as AEC specialist. He was digital platform solutions manager at Willmott Dixon’s Collida offshoot for two years. Before that, had a ...