Inquiry launched to see how construction industry can meet net zero targets
A UK Parliamentary inquiry has been launched to see how the construction industry can meet net zero targets. The industry is responsible for about 10% of the country’s carbon emissions and now the Commons Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) has announced it will look at why assessing embodied carbon in construction is not required by current […]
Why the construction industry needs to embrace the fourth industrial revolution
The construction industry has been urged to shed its decades-old working practices and embrace the wave of digitalisation sweeping the global economy if it is to shake free of stagnation and flourish with trillions of dollars of cost savings. The fourth industrial revolution, as it has been termed, has seen a revolutionary merging of the […]
Blockchain-Building confidence in digital connectivity
Why is it that in an era of online everything, the construction industry has been described as the least digitised industry? Sure, the biggest hurdle to any kind of transition has probably been the fact we associate it, naturally, with manual labour, bricks and mortar. Coupled with the equally undeniable fact it’s heavily regulated, we […]
Life Costing Analysis: Cost and Carbon Efficient Construction
Life-time cost and carbon savings can be easily made by making small simple specification changes to a base design of a building. The materials and components chosen for a building will have an impact on a building’s performance, both financially and economically throughout its lifetime. Financial and environmental costs should be coupled together whenever thinking […]
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