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Feature


Distilling the essence of design

Thomas Mahon of Bimorph Digital Engineering explains the use of GenerativeComponents to calculate the mathematics behind The Macallan Distillery's distinctive and complex roof


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Bentley OpenBuildings Designer

Rounding off a sequence of 'Open' applications from Bentley is OpenBuildings Designer - the ultimate single multidisciplinary application


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News


Evolution M takes to the cloud

Integrity Software have launched a cloud-based version of their award-winning construction accounting software, with a number of customers already using the web-based system


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Another flying success for Bluesky

International aerial mapping company Bluesky has completed another successful survey season in the UK and Ireland


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Scanning for intelligent signs of data

Advances in technology for observing the earth from space have resulted in the formation of a new company which will bring a range of innovative satellite intelligence and data services to market


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3D Repo secure major investment

Ingenious, through its Infrastructure Ventures EIS Service, has lead a £2.3m A-series investment round in 3D Repo, completing yet another successful year for the innovative start-up


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Software Review


An ERP primer

How do you define an ERP system? EasyBuild, winners of the ERP Solution of the Year award at the 2019 Construction Computing Awards, provide an insight into the requirements of such a solution to David Chadwick


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Under the surface

MGISS and vGIS bring Augmented Reality to 3D mapping and BIM

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Case Study

BIM technology for AURA Apart

Ukrainian Architects the Da Vinchi Group have won the European Property Award for their AURA Apart hotel, designed using ARCHICAD and relying heavily on BIM technology


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Mix and match

When faced with a hybrid mix of precast, cast-in-place and reinforcement concrete, a tight delivery schedule, a marine environment and complex construction methodologies...


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Comment

'The times they are a-changing'.

Who would have thought Brexit would trigger the Apocalypse? With plagues of locusts sweeping across the Asian and African continents, all we are waiting for is for four horsemen to show up. The issues with Brexit are mere chickenfeed compared to the increasingly frequent and severe flooding we are witnessing (on a global basis) and the ramifications of Covid19. The first, a consequence of changing weather patterns, invokes the emotional response that we should respond by throwing more money at the problem to improve flood defences – the second, however, threatens lives, lifestyles, industries, travel, the financial stability of countries and, finally, governments. The pandemic, if we are allowed to call it that now, is spreading and whilst some countries appear to be coping with it, others are woefully unprepared or unable to cope with outbreaks effectively through a lack of resources.

We have more to say about flooding in the next issue of the magazine – an increasingly important and perennial topic for the early issues, it seems - and are hesitant to claim special circumstances for the UK Construction Industry. We don't stand isolated from the rest of the community. We are possibly going to be faced with whole cities being locked down as they did in China with travel restrictions around the country and a shortage of labour and locally sourced construction resources and materials. It's not an industry where you can work from home, but neither is it dependent on vital components from China or other Asian countries. We are not liable, either, to be asked to knock up 1000 bed hospitals in a couple of weeks. It is, though, going to be a period of change, where we not only have to handle a changing relationship with our European partners, come to grips with a whole slew of new rules and regulations, but also to learn to work within an evolving global epidemic.

Now... about this theory that London is at the lower end of a massive tilting tectonic plate which apparently has Kent and Sussex sinking, leaving the Northern counties higher and drier....

David Chadwick

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