18 June, 2019
As G4C, the young professional voice of the UK Built Environment we recognise that technology is changing the face of the built environment right from design processes all the way through operation. Technology is modernising the way we design, make decisions and interact with one another leading to a smarter, more efficient and collaborative construction industry. … Continue reading “Generation for Tech – Better, Faster, Stronger?”
7 July, 2017
The Young Generation Recently Harry Paige went into Sheffield Hallam to give a talk on the challenge set by Transport for the North followed by an hour’s think tank on their thoughts. As part of the leaders challenge with Turner & Townsend. Students with ranging degrees, mostly from the built environment, openly discussed their opinions … Continue reading “Transport for the North”
17 July, 2015
Open data has been described by Tim Berners-Lee (the inventor of the www protocol) as the new frontier of the Internet. We find ourselves today in respect to open data in a similar situation to the one we faced 26 years ago when the world wide web protocol was released. Something big had just started … Continue reading “You may say I am an Open Data dreamer”
18 June, 2015
The volume of information generated in todays digital world will not have escaped anyone reading this and we have now firmly entered the ‘big data’ age where large pools of information are captured, communicated, aggregated, stored, and analysed as part of every sector and function of the global economy. The construction sector is a huge … Continue reading “Open vs. secure, getting the balance right with construction project data”
