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By Sam Stacey 2021-03-10T06:00:00+00:00
We are on a journey that will result in a sector far better than the world can currently imagine, says Sam Stacey
Buckminster Fuller, one of the great architectural visionaries of the 20th century, said “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” The Transforming Construction programme was established to build a new model for the construction industry and support the sector on its transformative journey. We are two and a half years into that journey and that new model is taking shape.
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Digital Twins could avert tragedies like Grenfell, say industry experts
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Digital Twins – using rich data and visualisation techniques to model things – could help us make smarter, more sustainable decisions for our communities.
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Digital Twin technology could have saved lives at Grenfell, and perhaps even averted the tragedy completely. That s the claim of Bola Abisogun, OBE, Chairman of DiverseCity Surveyors, a 27-year veteran of the construction industry who is committed to battling inequality with data and informed engineering.
The 2017 disaster, in which 72 residents of the Grenfell Tower in Kensington, London, lost their lives in an inferno, has become a byword for inaction and greed by private contractors, the use of cheap, combustible materials in buildings, and councils lack of insight into the supply chains behind social properties. It s a problem that exists in towns and cities throughout the world, particularly af
A JCB Hydradig wheeled excavator is playing a key role in supporting a £72m Government-backed project to transform UK construction through digitally-enabled modern methods of construction. Th.