1. Is Google planning a BIM-busting app for construction?
Google’s apps and operating system have already “disrupted” Microsoft’s business – and now it could be planning to do the same for BIM and online collaboration in the construction industry. Read more…
2. Stephen Roome: ‘This is the pinnacle of my career’
BAM Construct’s Stephen Roome, the CIOB’s Construction Manager of the Year 2013, told the audience at London’s Grosvenor House Hotel that he’d achieved the “pinnacle” of his career. Read more…
3. BAM Construct tops CMYA medal table
BAM Construct had much to celebrate at the CMYA 2013 after two of its construction managers were named as Construction Manager of the Year gold medallists and two also took home silver medals. Read more…
4. MPs hear strong criticism of local authorities procurement
MPs on the Communities and Local Government Select Committee investigating local authority procurement were given a damning picture of poor practice and inefficiency in construction procurement by a trio of industry witnesses. Read more…
5. Qatar 2022 stadium launched into controversy
Visuals of the first new-build stadium to be built for the Qatar 2022 World Cup were launched amid heightened concern over appalling conditions for migrant labourers in the Gulf state. Read more…
6. UK firms in Qatar face new scrutiny following Amnesty report
Amnesty International’s report into the legal and regulatory system in Qatar that allows appalling treatment of migrant labour also highlighted the role played by late payment in the construction industry – including on contracts run by Western contractors. Read more…
7. Is this how to prevent flash flooding in city tunnels?
New York City has tested a giant, inflatable plug developed to block floodwaters and dangerous gases in mass transit tunnels. Read more…
8. Setting sail for uncharted waters
We’ve navigated our way through the choppy waters of recession, but the long-awaited recovery is bringing a whole new set of challenges. CM offers some guidance. Read more…
9. Construction to sign up to cyclist safety code
After five cyclists lost their lives on London’s roads in just nine days – with construction-related tipper trucks involved in two of the fatal collisions – the capital’s construction sector was set to sign up to a new code of practice setting stringent safety standards on vehicles. Read more…
10. How prepared are you to implement BIM on your next project?
Readers give their views on their readiness for BIM in CM’s vox pop. Read more…
Top management story
The Rugby club, the £50k ‘rebate’ and NEC3
Peter Gracia unravels a tale of dubious accounting. Read more…
Top international story
UK nuclear power with Chinese characteristics
China’s deep involvement in UK nuclear power development is inevitable and will include building the stations. Read more…
Top comment
We need to talk abut BIM – or do we?
John Eynon responds to Tony Bingham’s article in Building magazine in which he suggests that BIM is no more than a device for shifting risk on to subcontractors. Read more…
Top feature story
Kit and caboodle – what you can’t do without on site
Ten CMYA winners and finalists tell CM about the kit that’s helped them stamp their mark on projects, from high-tech scanners to self-climbing cranes. Read more…
