All Process articles
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FeaturesProcurement update: Offsite
With government pushing the offsite agenda and a growing housing sector needing to access new聽capacity, how can clients position themselves to take advantage of the benefits of offsite construction?
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FeaturesProcurement update: revolution
Two decades on from the Egan report and with a construction sector deal on the way, will 2018 be the year for construction鈥檚 procurement revolution?聽
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FeaturesProcurement update: Uncertain markets
Clients are returning to package-based procurement to get better value from their supply chain, even though this involves taking on much more risk
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FeaturesProcurement update: Uncertain markets
With the emergent challenges of Brexit, how can the industry drive improved innovation, productivity and value for money through commercially responsible procurement?
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FeaturesBIM: Cost vs benefits
The industry is frequently told it must engage with building information modelling, but there is little information available on the cost versus benefit balance of integrating BIM into a construction project
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FeaturesProcurement update: BIM
As the 2016 deadline for the UK government鈥檚 mandate gets closer, the take-up of BIM on projects and programmes is accelerating
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FeaturesProcurement update
Construction is now 12 months into its recovery and project procurement has become much more challenging - even in the regions. SImon Rawlinson of EC Harris takes soundings from projects and considers the best options in a fast-moving market
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FeaturesThe rise of the BIM consultant
With its clear government backing and success stories in the press, construction firms realise that BIM is a Very Important Thing. The question is, how to do it? Thomas Lane meets the new wave of BIM consultants who may have the answer
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FeaturesBIM builds up: Five recent innovations in BIM
Simulated cities, 5D modelling and virtually visualised bridges 鈥� BIM is advancing and extending into all disciplines and stages of a project, including post completion. Here we look at the latest developments and assess their impact on construction
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FeaturesDe-coding BIM
好色先生TV information modelling could be applied to save time and money on every government project within five years. But few people are using it and many don鈥檛 even know it exists. Here are seven key ways BIM will affect you and your work
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My digital life:聽Mark Taylor
Preferred means of communication?I鈥檓 afraid I鈥檓 rather analogue when it comes down to it 鈥� I prefer a good old fashioned conversation.What shall we play?Continuing the analogue theme Yahtzee is my favourite game - mainly because I can still beat the kids at it - which is more than can ...
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FeaturesWinging it: Bombardier aircraft factory
Air traffic gridlock over the holidays might have put you off flying for life. But Bombardier is launching a new plane with high-tech carbon fibre wings - first, though, it needed a factory that could be designed in tandem with those wings
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好色先生TVThe use of force: 好色先生TV information modelling
好色先生TV information modelling may make everything better, but most firms don鈥檛 want to use it. But that might change now the government plans to make it compulsory on all public projects. Stephen Kennett reports
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The SAP affair: Part L compliance software
Forget house prices, where you鈥檙e going on holiday and the benefits of cosmetic surgery - SAP is what everyone鈥檚 talking about at parties right now. This crash course in sustainability software explains why
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FeaturesNow we understand
The simple aim of persuading every member of a project team to use the same format for documents can have a huge effect on time and morale.