October 2021

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Welcome to Tech Adoption Week 2021

Welcome to the first annual Tech Adoption Week! Over the next few days, we’ll be exploring fresh ways to help you navigate change and ease tech adoption at your organization.

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Tech Adoption Week 2021
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Where There’s Muck: How to Deal with Construction’s Waste

  • Sustainability
The UK generates enormous quantities of construction waste; in 2018, such waste amounted to 138 million tonnes. By designing and building better, the sector hopes to reduce the amount of materials needed—and waste generated.
Circular Economy in Construction

From the Linear to the Circular Economy in Construction

  • Sustainability
Making the industry more environmentally sustainable requires the transition from the linear approach to construction to a more circular model that offers additional advantages in overall cost, materials pricing and supply security
Construction Costs 2023

Where Will Construction Costs Go in 2023?

  • Construction & The Economy
Inflation, supply chain bottlenecks and near-term economic uncertainty have recently clouded contractors’ ability to forecast their project costs
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Meet Lashanna Lintamo, Welder-Turned-Social-Media-Mogul

  • Bluebeam Tips and Tricks
The 35-year-old welder is using social media to inspire future generations to enter the trade—and to promote her larger ambitions that aim to help the Black community across industries (from 2021)
Founders of Eve Workwear

Meet Eve Workwear 

  • Health, Safety, and Compliance
Breaking into the construction wear industry was not easy for Eve Workwear, but after 12 years, the company is successfully meeting the needs of female construction workers.
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The sleeping giant—Australia’s hidden construction workforce

  • Project Management & Efficiency
The most significant issue facing one of Australia’s primary economic drivers—the construction industry—is labour scarcity. However, a simple solution is within our own population: building and harnessing the power of a female workforce.
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How the Internet of Things Can Help Construction

  • Technology & Innovation
The construction sector’s productivity challenges are well known. The advent of the Internet of Things—part of the Fourth Industrial Revolution—could see the industry’s processes and resulting buildings become more efficient.
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Why This Woman Chose a Career in Construction

  • People & Project Spotlights
Women are making inroads in construction, filling roles across the industry from project managers to architects. Built spoke to Afsheen Ul Haq, a forensic and risk planning manager at BAM, to hear about her route into the sector and the challenges for women in the industry.
Stanley "Dirt Monkey" Genadek

Contractor. Landscaper. YouTube Star?

  • People & Project Spotlights
Stanley ‘Dirt Monkey’ Genadek is an unlikely internet star, having amassed nearly 1 million YouTube subscribers who tune in to watch him perform and comment on relatively humdrum residential construction projects
Black History Month 2023

Built Celebrates Black History Month 2023

  • People & Project Spotlights
In honor of Black History Month, Built reflects on the top stories featuring Black construction professionals from the past several years
LeanConstruction-Feature

Can Lean Construction Be the Sector’s Saviour?

  • Project Management & Efficiency
Current economic conditions appear likely to squeeze the construction sector harder than ever. But many firms are adopting lean construction methods to offer customers better value, create more efficient workflows and eradicate waste.
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What Causes Urban Blight—And What Can Be Done About It?

  • Sustainability
Cities across the globe have experienced urban blight, where districts that have seen a significant downturn in fortunes are abandoned, residential and business properties left vacant. Responding to this change in fortunes is becoming an industry in itself.
Making Digital Scalable Part 1

How to Scale Digital Construction Tech: Part 1

  • Technology & Innovation
The pandemic accelerated digital adoption in construction. Here’s how firms of all sizes can approach the new world of digital technology adoption, starting with a discovery process designed to assess your firm’s needs
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Construction and the Cost-of-Living Crisis

  • Construction & The Economy
The UK is facing a near-perfect storm of economic headwinds, fuelled by inflation, rising interest rates and slumping demand. Construction firms, which face higher energy costs and rising prices for essential materials, can weather this, but it’s going to be tough.
Next-Generation Construction Skills

What Are the Next-Generation Construction Skills?

  • Technology & Innovation
From 3D intelligence to AI and supply chains and jobsite logistics, tomorrow’s construction worker needs to be equipped with these skills—and more—to thrive in the industry
Virtual Environments in Construction

The Metaverse Comes to Construction

  • Technology & Innovation
Contractors are increasingly turning to virtual environments to help with pre-construction, and as more of larger society leans into the so-called metaverse, the technology’s use in construction seems poised to grow
Jobsite Safety Assessment Tool

This Free Tool Aims to Help Small Contractors with Jobsite Safety

  • Health, Safety, and Compliance
In construction, there can be a disconnect between safety culture, companies’ stated commitment to safety and the safety climate—the ‘shared perceptions’ about whether safety policies and procedures should be followed
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9 Priorities for Construction Technology for 2023 – And Beyond

  • Technology & Innovation
Some construction firms are well down the path toward a technologically enhanced future, with robots, drones, cloud-based resources and acres of software. But others have work to do. So what should they be thinking about?