Technology

The big challenges ahead – skills shortages, boosting productivity, adapting to Brexit – are driving a demand for change.

Oracle has spent nearly $2bn building up its project management and payment platforms to target the construction industry. So what is the tech heavyweight planning?

Housebuilding targets are unlikely to be met without digital innovation. A panel of leaders from clients, housebuilders and trade bodies gathered to identify the barriers to technology – and how to break them down.

The impetus towards wide-scale endorsement of offsite manufacturing continues to intensify.

Does age present a barrier to embracing new digitised construction methods?

When I first joined the industry, ‘BIM’ came up frequently and I was always utterly baffled by what it actually meant.

With tech start-ups and fresh ideas vital to digitising construction, Binyamin Ali spoke to three sector newcomers looking to transform 3D mapping, project tracking and even drug testing.

The government’s 2016 mandate brought BIM to the fore, yet many remain confused about its true meaning as leading figures ask whether it’s obscuring the need to digitise the industry. Lucy Alderson investigates.

Pioneering firms and a trailblazing government project have the potential to transform industry productivity through manufacturing methods. Binyamin Ali finds out how.

Following the government’s delayed release of the construction industry sector deal, CN analyses the agreement’s stand-out features.