The Pre-Construction Phase Plan: Key to Delivering a Good Project
Construction projects can range in size, but they all require extensive planning, and this in turn demands collaboration from an early stage, known as the pre-construction phase.
How Will Low Carbon Construction Lead the Fight to Reverse Climate Change?
The built environment generates more than a third of the U.K.’s carbon emissions. Confronting its role in accelerating climate change is a priority for the construction industry.
The Art of Biomimicry in Architecture: How It Helps Construction and Other Sectors
The world is awash with modern technology, but engineers and designers aren’t averse to referring to the natural world for inspiration, using biomimicry to make construction and other sectors more efficient and sustainable
Protecting Biodiversity – Construction’s Challenge
As climate change continues to dominate the news, social and business agenda, architects and developers are increasingly seeking to deliver biodiversity in construction —giving back to nature—and have minimal impact on the environment, both in construction and operation.
The $140 Billion National Infrastructure Strategy to Change the Nation
The U.K. government might have launched its National Infrastructure Strategy in the middle of a pandemic, but nothing should detract from the fact that it is one of the most ambitious set of projects to boost the country’s roads, underpasses, railways and broadband networks in a generation.
Wooden Buildings: Trees Converted into Habitats for Humans
Concern around climate change and a desire to construct more sustainable buildings is driving the construction industry to deliver a built environment that has less impact on the world around it. The increased use of timber in tall buildings is part of this process.
Healing Spaces and Wellness Architecture
Designers have long been aware of the link between healthy buildings and healthy occupants. The emergence of wellness architecture will only add to the clamour for our built environment to be better for us.
The Sand Shortage 2021: Is The World Running Out of Sand?
A two-year-old United Nations report warned that the world needed to act to maintain its reserves of sand, with supplies already under pressure from extensive building programs. As construction activity continues after COVID-19, is the industry likely to see a shortage of one of the most essential building materials?
Recycled Plastic Roads: Putting Waste to Good Use
Companies have discovered that when waste plastic is reprocessed it makes a great ingredient for roads, creating stretches of highway that are more robust and long-lasting than those made using traditional materials
Architects Using Virtual Reality: A Gamechanger?
Once the preserve of computer game designers, virtual reality technology enables architects—and their clients—get up front and personal with a building far in advance of its completion.
The Impact of Brexit on the Construction Industry
Five years ago, the U.K. voted to leave the European Union, and 18 months ago it did just that. The industry has some big concerns over a construction labour shortage as it relies on EU citizens. So what’s next for the industry?
Fighting Climate Change With Eco-Friendly House Features
The homebuilding sector is embracing technology to improve the energy efficiency of new homes and reduce carbon emissions, while owners of eco-friendly house features to make their properties more environmentally sound.
How Can the Construction Industry Achieve ‘Net Zero Buildings’?
The U.K. government wants net zero carbon emissions by 2050. But can the country’s construction industry—which currently produces a whopping 40% of those emissions—overhaul the way it works to help achieve this?
Reflections on Winning the CIOB’s Global Student Challenge Competition
As the winners of the CIOB Global Student Challenge 2021 are about to be announced, Bluebeam—which offers practical help and advice to the participants—spoke to the winners of last year’s competition about what they learned from a contest where they pretend to run a construction company.
Famous Female Engineers—Unsung Heroes?
Women comprise just more than half of the U.K. population but fewer than one in 10 are registered engineers. Organisations like the Women’s Engineering Society seek to promote the female talent pool.
