This is the final article in a series of six that have been specifically designed to inform, support and assist industry and individuals within the built environment to embrace, engage and map their individual digital transformation journey. In the first three articles we detailed the tools required by industry to build their digitalisation pathway. Articles...Read More

In the first three articles of this series we looked at the tools that the construction sector could avail of to build a pathway to digitalisation success. The fourth detailed the need for upskilling in the industry, and this article will outline some of the benefits that the sector can secure if it continues to...Read More

This is the third article in the series of six by Paul McCormack, detailing the advantages of digitalisation for the built environment and why companies must engage in the process to secure sustainable growth and success. This final piece in Part 1 of the series, “The Tools”, builds on the previous digitalisation and BIM articles...Read More

It is widely accepted that digitalisation is a game-changing strategy that will empower the construction sector to thrive and deliver the expertise for sustainable energy skills (see Building Services Engineering May/June 2021). In this, the second article in our Digitalisation Series, Paul McCormack, Innovation Manager, Belfast Metropolitan College, focusses on the significant role BIM has...Read More

The rate of development within building services over the past recently-developed technologies allowing projects to be delivered in unprecedented timeframes. However, fast-track projects can put a squeeze on resources within an engineering firm. All too often the fine detail checks, like checking for adequate aside. This can lead to reduced quality and cost variations that...Read More

The crucial role of specification writing has been so severely downgraded that it is undermining building designs, writes David Fitzpatrick, Chair, CIBSE Patrons, in the latest edition of Building Services News.Read More

In recent years we have witnessed the ever-increasing digitisation of our economy and application of “big data” to deliver more cost-effective services to meet new and expanding customer needs. The rate of adoption has been exponential whether its Uber, Airbnb, Amazon or fintech applications that allow you seamlessly make a purchase. However, one sector that...Read More

Chris Hallam is a partner at Pinsent Masons specialising in infrastructure, construction and engineering transactions. He recently posed this question on the BIM Linkedin Group and then published an article as a consequence of the discussion that ensued. An abridged version first appeared in Construction Manager and BIM Plus but the full article is reproduced...Read More

BIM is not about the future … it is about now. Building professionals and contractors not adopting BIM are like airlines not using online booking … they will soon go out of business.Read More

Lighting design is one of the fastest-changing areas in engineering, both with regard to standards being set and to changing technology. In recent years standards have been set by the European Committee for Standardisation (CEN) for all countries in Europe through EN 12464 Lighting for Workplaces, and EN 15193 the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive.Read More