BIM and Digital
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TechnicalComing soon – 3D printed components for the masses
3D printing has the potential to produce complex structural components quickly and cheaply if the technology were commercially available. Now Fosters has done just that.
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News
Post-Grenfell safety regulator to be run solely by HSE
New body was originally expected to include local authorities, fire and rescue services
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News
BIG picked by Toyota to design experimental digital city
Timber prototype will be built by robots
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News
Zaha Hadid Architects hired to create duplex lobby in Southbank Tower
Work at former King’s Reach Tower is architect’s first resi refurb scheme
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News
Architecture school announces first offsite construction course
Oxford Brookes teams up with Hawkins Brown on new part II
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Features
Architects should embrace a modular future
The profession ought to be cheering the government’s support for modern methods of construction, not knocking it, argues HTA’s Simon Bayliss
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News
Architects with Revit skills earn 9% more
Practices pay salary premiums for staff with prized digital experience
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News
3D-scanned homage to UK chippies opens in China
Anglo-Hong Kong practice plays with notions of copying
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Features
Esther McVey is wrong about architecture in every dimension
Housing minister’s much-ridiculed discovery of ‘3D architects’ betrays a deeper misunderstanding, writes Robert Adam
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Features
What if Google built your house?
Flavio Tejada predicts a future in which emerging technologies transform the built environment – and construction
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Building Study
Building Study: Drayton Green Church, by Piercy & Company
This west London church replaces medieval mystery with digital geometry in a thrilling reinterpretation of the gothic tradition
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News
Tech survey finds 70% of architects now using BIM
Joint RIBA and Microsoft research shows some practices drag heels in digital transformation race
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Technical
Technical Study: The world's first 3D-printed house, by CLS Architetti
3D printing is fast breaking down conventional barriers in engineering and architecture and changing the way the industry operates
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News
Skills shortage hits BIM uptake, survey finds
Large practices acknowledge financial benefits but can’t always get the staff
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Technical
AI: Are the machines coming for your job?
From drones that do site inspections, to exoskeletons that save construction workers from back injury, to algorithms that crunch building codes to churn out thousands of design variants, artificial intelligence is ushering in a fourth revolution in construction
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Technical
Behind the scenes at the V&A Dundee
Realising Kengo Kuma’s extraordinarily complex design for the V A’s outpost in Dundee would not have been possible without sophisticated modelling tools and precision construction techniques.
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Technical
The rebirth of the age of ornament
A Boston restoration project using advanced 3D-modelling and printing technologies could hold the key to a new age of decoration within contemporary design
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News
Government not doing enough to enforce BIM, survey finds
NBS findings reveal last year’s target not being met
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News
Survey flags increasing specification difficulties
Research shows 94% of professionals struggle with producing or using building specifications
