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Feature


An ecosystem of innovation

JavaScript's flexible and simple web-enabling application gives Bentley's iModel the muscle it needs to create its industry leading 'digital twin' environments


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Objects in Motion

BIMobjects have now been integrated into the latest version of Twinmotion


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News


Jill Willoughby

It is with great sorrow that Trimble has announced that, after a year of fighting, Jill Willoughby has sadly lost her battle with cancer


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LASIMM 3d printing project goes live

The Large Additive Subtractive Integrated Modular Machine (LASIMM) has announced a major milestone in its development


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Vectorworks design scholarship opens

Vectorworks has announced its fourth annual Vectorworks Design Scholarship


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Case Study



HS2 - the journey begins

The Skanska Costain Strabag Joint Venture has been given the most complex part of the HS2 contract, threading the high speed rail approach into the Euston Station 'needle'

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BIM, but smaller

The small-scale project at Swithland Lane, Rothley, designed by Jonathan Reeves of JRA using Vectorworks, was one of the runners-up in the ‘Best use of IT in Architecture’ at the 2018 Construction Computing Awards

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Software Review


Tekla Bridge Creator

Trimble's Tekla Structures introduces a Bridge Design workflow with its new Bridge Creator extension

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Q & As with EasyBuild

EasyBuild's Construction Software platform forms the basis of a Q & A session for companies and contractors taking the first steps towards complete integration of their financial and project management solutions

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Hammers Awards

The Hammers on winning form!

November’s Construction Computing Awards, 'The Hammers' 2018, at the Portman Hotel in London was a lively, bubbling and enjoyable evening - not least because I (just about) managed to fit into my dinner jacket again

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Company of the Year 2018 - Construction Computing Awards

WINNER: Solibri UK Ltd
RUNNER-UP: Viewpoint

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Comment

Brexit, Anyone?

Within the next few days we will know whether we are in, out or stuck in the middle of the EU with the WA – or not, as the whole shooting match which has been going on for far too long may be shunted further down the road again before a final decision is made. Whatever happens, there will be outrage, claims of infamy and indignant protests as there is no chance that anybody’s interests will be satisfied at either end of the Brexit spectrum or anywhere in between – as nobody has been able to put forward a viable and acceptable departure process from the European Union – and the Nation is irrevocably split.

Awfully bad timing, as well. Chaos and confusion reigns supreme elsewhere, with trade wars being waged between principal states, security concerns dominating competing nations, implied interference in US and UK elections and governing processes – I don’t need to add names to any of these accusations – they are already well known – and the huge changes coming to industry with the move away from carbon based fuels, escalating environmental concerns, the rush to grab what’s left of global resources, and the growth in AI, autonomous vehicles, smart cities and the acquisition, management, subversion and misapplication of data.

You might like to think of Brexit as someone casting off from the quay in a dinghy with the tide rising. pressure dropping, and Force 5 winds threatening from the South West and no maps or life-jackets. But we’re OK – we’ve got a reputation as experienced sailors and we’ll come out of it wet and bedraggled, but still smiling.

David Chadwick

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