A new carbon calculator is being launched later this month – the first to measure the capital and operational carbon footprints of BIM designed assets, writes Mott MacDonald sustainability leader Davide Stronati
As BIM becomes mandatory in public projects, Richard Shennan says re-thinking the boundaries between consulting engineers and contractors is a key step in realising BIM’s benefits.
A team at Cambridge University is applying advanced machine learning to build BIM models, but needs help from national infrastructure agencies to realise the technique's vast potential, says Viorica Patraucean
BIM is now proven as a means for helping the rail sector to solve acute issues of delivery capacity, particularly in electrification, writes Atkins' Ray Dudding
As the deadline for Level 2 BIM nears in England, in Scotland the mandatory date is April 2017. Transport Scotland project manager Andy Anderson answers the key questions
UK government BIM task group chair Mark Bew sets out his views on the challenge of taking the UK supply chain to BIM level compliance by 2 April 2016 and explains the new target to verify and drive up data quality by October 2016.
With the Government’s deadline for the use of Level 2 BIM rapidly approaching, those involved in the design and delivery of infrastructure projects find themselves at the ‘sharp end’ of the BIM revolution says Dr Stephen Hamil