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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Wood Buildings Amsterdam

Amsterdam Moves to Mandate Wood Building. Here’s Why.

  • Sustainability
Inspired by the environmental advantages of wood construction, the European city recently passed groundbreaking legislation mandating that all new buildings constructed after 2025 consist of at least 20% wood or other biobased material (from 2022)
Central Roles for construction business

The Holy Trinity – Central Roles for your Construction Business Success 

  • Project Management & Efficiency
Australia-wide, skills shortages are emerging as wicked problems for a range of sectors and their workforces, leading to businesses taking on employees who are not the best fit for key jobs. Learn the pivotal jobs in construction delivery where how and who you recruit can make or break your business.
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How Computational Design Is Taking Construction to New Heights

  • Technology & Innovation
The advent of the computer saw construction’s potential take a leap forward with CAD and BIM. Now advances in computational design are helping the industry—from architects to on-site contractors—deliver better buildings more efficiently.
Environmental Sustainability in Construction

Built Celebrates Construction’s Sustainability Push

  • Sustainability
Making construction more environmentally sustainable is a vital focus for the industry. Here, we look back on Built’s most recent top stories about the industry’s sustainability push
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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 and residential and business properties left vacant. Responding to this change in fortunes is becoming an industry in itself.
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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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Construction Backlogs – Managing Expectations

  • Project Management & Efficiency
The word ‘backlog’ summons up images of work being held up, delays and pressure. But in construction a backlog can be a good thing because it can show a potential client that a contractor is in demand. However, it’s not always simple.
lean and agile

Lean and Agile – How to do more with less staff 

  • Project Management & Efficiency
The fine balance between adequate staffing levels, meeting business demands and optimising your resources across Australia’s construction industry has never been more challenging. Learn how to be lean and agile, doing more with less.
Scaling Technology in Construction

How to Scale Digital Construction Tech: Part 4

  • Technology & Innovation
Once the hard work of evaluating, implementing and measuring the impact of a digital solution is complete, the last step is to invigorate your team to make the most of the new, powerful tool
Bluebeam quantity takeoffs

The Power of Digitizing Quantity Takeoffs

  • Technology & Innovation
When quantity takeoff workflows are simple and accurate, entire construction projects go more smoothly—here’s how technology can help
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We Are the Robots – Construction, AI and Machine Learning 

  • Technology & Innovation
The construction industry is constantly looking for new ways to improve, whether that’s in terms of productivity, efficiency, safety or profitability. Would increased use of artificial intelligence and machine learning be the way to deliver these enhanced efficiencies?
Archeology in Construction

How Archeologists Keep Builders Building

  • Health, Safety, and Compliance
Companies like Alpine Archaeological Consultants are part of a $1 billion industry devoted to cultural resource or heritage management in the construction industry
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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
Lashanna Lintamo welding

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.