A round-up of BIM and digital construction stories you might have missed in the past month, including McLaren Construction’s adoption of Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite connectivity.

McLaren Construction has chosen 360 degree reality capture technology from OpenSpace to be rolled out across its major projects.

Following BIMplus’s recent interview with Thomas Flannery, head of digital construction at McLaren Construction, here Acumine director Daniel Maddocks describes the consultancy’s role in the contractor’s digital transformation.

Delivering projects digitally was the brief McLaren Construction gave Thomas Flannery when he joined in late 2022, and that’s exactly what the contractor is doing now on £500m worth of projects.

McLaren Construction has drafted in former Sir Robert McAlpine and Laing O’Rourke digital head James Eaton, now director of digital transformation at Acumine, to develop the contractor’s digital and data strategy.