A weekly round up of news for digital construction professionals  RMIT University researchers have shown how recycled cigarette stubs can be manufactured into bricks, saving energy during their manufacture and improving insulation. The construction materials research found that...

A weekly round up of news for digital construction professionals  The construction projects market in the UAE is to be worth AED 279bn ($76bn) by 2024, according to a Research and Markets report. In the coming two years...

A weekly round up of news relevant to digital construction professionals  Drones are being used to inspect the UAE’s Barakah nuclear power plant, improving workplace safety and reducing the time it takes to conduct inspections. Drones are able...

DC Hub interviewed Alain Waha, Head of BIM and Digital at BuroHappold, to discuss the idea of technology with a purpose, driving broad support for digitialisation in construction, ensuring that tangible benefits are at the forefront of thinking...

A weekly round up of news relevant to digital construction professionals  A US research team is investigating the use of different soil types as an alternative to concrete for 3D printed buildings. Using local materials such as soil...

A research team in the US are investigating the use of soil as an alternative to concrete in 3D printed buildings. If successful, they say it will help the construction industry develop more sustainable building methods and could...

A weekly round up of news relevant to digital construction professionals  The Research & Development Centre at Dubai Electricity & Water Authority (Dewa) is using 3D printing to produce prototypes and spare parts. Construction Week writes that Dewa...

A weekly round up of news relevant to digital construction professionals  Technologies such as 3D printing have proven useful in overcoming logistical limitations during the Covid-19 pandemic, says Mohamed Kinj, Managing Partner at 3D Middle East. In an...

In this clip from the Digital Construction Hub's webinar on '10 technologies disrupting construction', we focus on mixed reality (augmented and virtual reality) and its links with construction sequencing (4D BIM). Augmented reality (AR) allows for a conceptual...

Virtual reality meeting at the Autodesk VR Center of Excellence in Munich, Germany, showing factory floorl 3d wireframe on the monitors and using VR goggles. Autodesk has accepted some of the criticism made about its Revit BIM software...

A weekly round up of news relevant to digital construction professionals The process- and manufacturing-oriented approach of offsite construction means it can become the new normal in the industry post pandemic. According to Stewart Dalgarno, project director for...