This is Digital Construction Plus

Welcome to Digital Construction Plus: a new partnership between Digital Construction Week (DCW) and Atom. If not your new obsession, we hope you will come to regard it as your first port of call for news, analysis and views about digital construction.

Let’s be clear off the bat: not just ‘construction’. DC+ (that’s what we’re abbreviating ourselves to – you can too, friend) embraces the built environment and the managed environment. And by ‘digital’, we mean processes and technology.

We’ll be covering BIM, information management, the digitalisation of traditional construction concepts and methods, the golden thread, visualisation, data capture, collaboration, sustainability, automation, digital twins, robotics and the new frontier of smart assets, among many other topics.

There’ll be case studies, interviews, ‘how to’ guides and very occasionally, if we can pinpoint the right side of bed to get out of, some fun. We’ll reflect the current agenda and concerns, but we’ll also be searching for new voices to complement the established names from the community and looking to generate debate: sabres may be rattled, kites may be flown, just don’t shoot the messenger.

Have no doubt, we want digital adoption to continue apace, not for the hell of it, but because genuine improvements can be made to how we design, build, operate and maintain the built and managed environments – and in doing that, we increase the value we bring to society.

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