The Hub Blog
Where it all begins – Jo’s story
In a new film Where It All Begins, the Construction Innovation Hub and Class Of Your Own (COYO) have joined together to call on the construction industry to support them in attracting the brightest and best upcoming talent. As part of this campaign, colleagues from...
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Agile Standards
We have seen over the past year how the COVID-19 response has accelerated the speed and scale of digital transformation. One of the most striking developments is the huge momentum towards the adoption of digital twins in the built environment. It’s an important step...
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Underpinning the Platform Design Programme with safety and quality assurance
As we approach the halfway point of another remarkable year, the sense of progress and change at play within the construction industry feels tangible. Despite the turbulent times we’ve faced as a sector, there have been so many significant steps towards transformation...
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Where it all begins – Andreea’s story
In a new film Where It All Begins, which is due to be released on Thursday 27 May, the Construction Innovation Hub and Class Of Your Own (COYO) have joined together to call on the construction industry to support them in attracting the brightest and best upcoming...
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Digital twins and how the Hub’s new interactive guidance can help
The Construction Playbook (2020) highlights the need for appointing parties, such as asset owner clients, to further embed digital technologies and processes, especially the UK BIM Framework and digital twins, as a vehicle to improve the performance, sustainability...
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Platform Rulebook: Defining the direction of a platform-based future
Platform construction systems are by no means a new topic of conversation in the construction sector. As a key evolution of modern methods of construction (MMC) and Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DfMA), significant voices across government and industry have been...
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Value Toolkit Market Enablers: The top 5 takeaways from our market engagement
Back in November 2020, the Construction Innovation Hub released the Market Enablers Interim Report, a summary of the findings from the Market Response Workstream of the Value Toolkit. Through 12 structured online workshops, held in partnership with industry bodies and...
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The power of data for ‘Defining the Need’ – an evidence-based approach
The Construction Innovation Hub’s ‘Defining the Need’ work has generated a cross-Governmental data set that is delivering some surprising new insights into the public sector estate, as well as a solid basis for the design of platform construction systems. Platform...
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BS EN ISO 19650-5:2020: Supporting a secure future for digital construction
One of the key drivers of the Construction Innovation Hub’s mission is to quicken the pace towards greater digitalisation in the construction industry. In recent years, the UK’s built environment has undergone a notable shift towards digitally enabled collaboration,...
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