Technology
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Steel estimating is moving deeper into AI-assisted workflow for fabricators. ALLPLAN’s new platform automates takeoffs and estimating-ready models from drawings, linking bid-stage work more closely to detailing and fabrication.
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England’s planning appeals system has shifted onto a new platform. Most new planning and enforcement appeals now move through the digital service, with fresh procedural rules in force for post-April applications.
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Harrow is widening digital twin use across assets and inspections. The borough’s drone-led model has already cut listed-building survey costs and is now moving into asset management, public realm promotion, and environmental enforcement.
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Burns & McDonnell has appointed Gareth James as Head of Civils, Transmission & Distribution, strengthening its UK engineering leadership as grid investment and programme complexity continue to rise.
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Geda has launched its IoT-Box Premium for transport platforms, adding real-time diagnostics, integrated access control, and system connectivity aimed at tighter equipment oversight on site.
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Ecocem’s Dunkirk expansion has moved further into view after a visit by EU climate commissioner Wopke Hoekstra, with the plant positioned as a major low-carbon cement production hub for Europe.
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Murphy has used Ecocem ACT low-carbon concrete in permanent works at Shipley Depot, marking a notable step in the move from trial pours to embedded use on live infrastructure.
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Develon has expanded its 9 Series crawler excavator range with larger models, extending its latest safety and machine-control package further up the heavy plant market.
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TALO has won a £1.1m contract from Lucy Developments for a nine-home Hertfordshire scheme that will test whether offsite timber delivery can scale beyond pilot-stage rhetoric.
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Grayson and Vision have brought the new GripLock masonry support tool to market, aiming to cut installation time, reduce handling risk, and simplify a repetitive but awkward part of façade and masonry support work.