The Balfour Beatty Vinci joint venture on the Midlands section of HS2 is saving money and has removed 800 working at risk days after successfully rolling out Esri UK’s drone flight management and image processing software.

Construction’s biggest companies will be represented at this year’s Digital Construction Awards, which takes place on 12 July.

The Digital Construction Awards attracted more than 120 entries, 63 of which have been shortlisted. Here, we detail the Digital Construction Project of the Year, sponsored by Revizto.

The Digital Construction Awards attracted more than 120 entries, 63 of which have been shortlisted. Here, we detail the shortlist for Digital Innovation In Design.

Balfour Beatty has released a short video highlighting some of its approaches to digital construction.

The BIM+ Opinions section acts as the industry’s Speakers’ Corner: BIM practitioners deliver calls to arms or critiques of processes or reminders of the challenges of BIM in the real world.

From robot dogs to AI, from drones to 4D, construction technology continued to evolve in 2021.

Maber Associates was brought on board as BIM manager when Balfour Beatty was appointed as the contractor to finish the construction of the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital near Birmingham after the demise of PFI contractor Carillion.

Balfour Beatty’s Hong Kong arm, Gammon Construction, has adopted Sensat’s data capture platform.

Balfour Beatty, Galliford Try and Morgan Sindall Group are to trial new technology which could provide automated, real-time reporting of scope 3 carbon emissions.