What can contractors learn from the Santiago Bernabéu?
Tottenham Hotspur battled to an impressive score-draw away at Real Madrid in the Champions League this week.
17 Oct 2017 Comments Off on What can contractors learn from the Santiago Bernabéu?
Tottenham Hotspur battled to an impressive score-draw away at Real Madrid in the Champions League this week.
06 Oct 2017 Comments Off on QR codes: Forgotten tech that could be useful for construction
Manchester Metrolink 3D 1 Earlier this week we took a look Manchester’s recently-completed £1.5bn Metrolink extension, with a particular focus on the £350m Trafford Park line.
29 Sep 2017 Comments Off on Immersive learning could improve industry’s image problem
I’ve written a fair bit in this column about the potential for virtual reality and augmented reality to change the way certain tasks in construction are carried out.
25 Sep 2017 Comments Off on Construction’s knowledge gap can no longer be ignored
Passing on knowledge and innovation is not one of the construction industry’s great strengths: that was one of the conclusions reached by Mark Farmer’s report, Modernise or Die, released almost a year ago.
15 Sep 2017 2 Comments
This week saw construction begin on Europe’s first 3D-printed building. The BOD Europe first 3D printed building
13 Sep 2017 2 Comments
We take for granted the prospect of a future where machines can think, rather than just do.
07 Sep 2017 Comments Off on McGee unleashes digital Pandora’s box with in-house apps
Specialist contractor McGee Group wanted to streamline its business processes while increasing compliance – and found that widespread adoption of apps was the way to do it.
01 Sep 2017 Comments Off on Why offsite manufacturing demands mayoral support
Offsite manufacturing has been touted a lot in the last year or so as a potential silver bullet for the UK’s housing crisis.
25 Aug 2017 1 Comment
You might think that flying taxis belong in the realm of science fiction – but they’re potentially closer than you might think.
20 Jul 2017 Comments Off on People power: Turning footsteps into electricity
PaveGen, a British tech start-up, is aiming to use the built environment and the people within it to generate truly sustainable electricity. CN pays a visit to its first major public installation in Britain.