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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PropertyDevelopersEthics-Feature

Ethical Property Development

  • Sustainability
Property developers deliver our homes, offices and the facilities we regularly use. However, these organizations often gain a reputation for dodgy behaviour, shoddy practices and poor quality. How can the sector ditch its tag of being unethical and embrace better working methods?
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How To Keep Remote Construction Teams Motivated and Productive

  • Project Management & Efficiency
COVID has made businesses adapt to remote work, creating challenges regarding workplace culture and performance. Understanding these and implementing ways to maintain and build collaboration, motivation and productivity can have lasting positive results
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Rising Construction Prices: When Will Building Materials Go Down in the UK?

  • Construction & The Economy
Thanks to Brexit and the covid pandemic-related supply chain issues the cost of building materials – everything from bricks to timber and steel – soared during 2020 and 2021. Just as this situation began to ease, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine piled yet more cost pressures on a number of key products. How can the industry mitigate these and meet the demand for new homes, infrastructure schemes and other projects?
Modular Building Challenges

Will Modular Building Go Mainstream? Not So Fast.

  • Technology & Innovation
The method, which features off-site, manufactured components transported to a jobsite, has grown in popularity of late, but must overcome several obstacles to reach mainstream viability
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Digitalisation in AEC

  • Technology & Innovation
Everything you need to know about technologies for Bauen 4.0, the right mindset for tackling digital transformation in AEC and the opportunities that the digital construction site offers.
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Digitalisation in Architecture, Engineering and Construction

  • Technology & Innovation
Everything you need to know about technologies for Bauen 4.0, the right mindset for tackling digital transformation in Architecture, Engineering and Construction and the opportunities that the digital construction site offers.
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Default Hotkeys: What’s the Pattern?

  • Bluebeam Tips and Tricks
Bluebeam Revu has a lot of features, which means lots of hotkeys. Here are the main time-saving patterns you should know
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The 5 Trends That Will Shape the Australian Construction Industry in 2022 

  • Construction & The Economy
While the construction industry is booming, the sector has suffered the lowest productivity gains over decades. Understanding and harnessing the trends – while also resolving the challenges – will position your business for sustainable growth and performance.
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Sophie Drury: Scaling The Heights In Construction

  • People & Project Spotlights
Bluebeam spoke to Mace construction manager Sophie Drury on what she loves about her job, her experiences working in the U.K. construction industry and how more women can be attracted to work in the sector
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Meet Althea Papinczak from WIDAC

  • People & Project Spotlights
From building a network to landing new projects, women in construction must fight to forge their own paths. Althea Papinczak is on a mission to change that
Construction Jobsite Noise

Does Construction Have a Noise Problem?

  • Bluebeam Tips and Tricks
Construction jobsites are dangerously loud, putting workers’ hearing at risk. Here’s why this safety issue isn’t so easily solved
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Designing and Delivering a Low-Carbon Building

  • Sustainability
With pressure building for the construction sector to address its carbon emissions as part of the battle to reverse the impact of climate change, designers and others are coming up with innovative ways “to do their bit” using materials like timber.
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A Family Affair: Moody Nolan’s Jonathan Moody

  • Building, Design & Architecture
The CEO of the largest Black-owned architecture firm in the U.S. shares how being an architect isn’t always about the buildings, as well as how he didn’t always envision working for the family business (from 2021)
Lumber Prices 2022

Why Lumber Prices Are Sky High—Again

  • Construction & The Economy
The price of the essential building material has been on a wild ride since the pandemic began. What’s behind the most recent spike?
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Earle Arney on Why ‘Densification’ Can Be Good for Society

  • People & Project Spotlights
The world’s population is growing and cities are getting bigger. Some fear that as they grow denser, cities will become like modern-day versions of some Dickensian nightmare. But architects such as Earle Arney argue this is far from the case, and that density can lead to healthier outcomes for residents
Post-COVID-19 Office Design

Why Contractors Are Unsure About Post-Pandemic Office Design

  • Project Management & Efficiency
The proliferation of remote and hybrid work seems likely to transform office space design and construction, but so far contractors and their clients alike remain unsure of what that future will look like