Hilti’s BIM Services Help Optimize Building Design

Hilti’s BIM design services and digitized building tools help optimize design and offer tools for multi-trade MEP support design. Karl Johnson, Technical Marketing Manager for BIM & MEP, explains the direct impacts of using BIM to improve construction processes, “Let’s consider MEP planning: Without BIM, the support structures are planned on-site and separately by each […]

Digital Blue Foam – An Interview with CEO Camiel Weijenberg

Aarni Heiskanen interviews Camiel Weijenberg, Founder and CEO of Digital Blue Foam, an AEC tech startup. Digital Blue Foam gives you 3D map data on every city, an unparalleled user experience, generative design, and sustainability analytics in one fully web-based design tool. The company is part of a growing movement seeking to digitize the architecture […]

How to cut the embodied carbon of our traditional use of brick

Despite its embodied carbon, masonry is still the default construction method. What are the alternatives? Ways to reduce embodied carbon: stone, rammed earth, hempcrete and unfired clay and reclaimed masonry bricks. The UK’s appetite for bricks is growing. With Great British Brick Shortage reports in recent years, increasing annual production and import, and now news […]