Building Information Modelling, or BIM, is widely seen as an inevitable step if the sector is going to sort out its building safety issues. But putting it into practice means wrangling with unwieldy ...

THE advent of powerful computers has enabled architects to produce stunning images of new buildings and other structures. No proposal for a big project is complete without a photorealistic rendering ...

Ellen Belknap, president of SMRT, a Portland architectural design firm, says the company added BIM five years ago because it recognized the technology would be essential to win contracts. The days of ...

You don't have to contemplate the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, or the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles for long to grasp the notion that standard two-dimensional drawings might be ...

For construction companies in Ireland, investment in digitisation was once hampered by uncertainty about cost and the likelihood of generating an immediate return on investment (ROI). Today, the ...

In some countries BIM compliance is now mandatory for all large projects. The UK is an example: if a company is not BIM-compliant, it will not get any state-funded construction work. London’s ...

Like just about every other industry today, the construction industry is changing and being shaped as a result of new technologies. Long gone are the days when all construction workers had to rely on ...