The Hub Blog
Building a safer and more sustainable future of construction
Gill Kelleher joined the Construction Innovation Hub as Impact Director for Assurance in June. In her first Hub blog article, Gill tells us what it’s been like taking up her new role in the middle of lockdown and outlines her priorities for the months ahead. It has...
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Beyond construction: where could Platforms take us?
The Hub’s Platform Design Lead, Jaimie Johnston, sets out a vision for the construction industry of the future. The Hub’s programme is the start of a journey that will fundamentally change the sector. But what might an end destination look like, and how will we get...
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NHS Louisa Jordan: The Transformative Power of Digitalisation
In recent months temporary hospitals have been erected at great speed across the UK to help deal with potential Covid-19 patients and have demonstrated remarkable innovation in our construction sector. The Hub's Impact Director for Digital, David Philp, visited the...
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Construction after COVID-19: let’s keep calm and carry on improving
There has been a lot of talk about how COVID-19 will change everything. I don’t think it will. COVID-19 will change some things. We will have to adapt elements of how we live and work, but they will be variations on themes, not fundamental departures from the past. We...
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Putting digitalisation at the heart of sector recovery
The Construction Innovation Hub (Hub) was launched in 2018 to drive a transformation in the UK construction sector through manufacturing technologies and digital ways of working that are trusted and secure. As we begin to emerge from the COVID19 crisis, this...
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Doubling Down on Impact: An Introduction to the Hub’s Value Theme
As we start a new financial year, I find myself reflecting on just how far we’ve come at the Construction Innovation Hub. The programme has brought together three vastly different organisations, and in the process, created one of the most passionate, diverse and...
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Organisational information requirements (OIR)
Since the release of BS EN ISO 19650 (Parts 1 and 2) there has been a noticeable industry shift towards a standardised approach to information briefing, delivery and management using building information modelling (BIM). ISO 19650 is a series of international...
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Delivering innovation to transform construction
UK Research & Innovation’s Transforming Construction Challenge partners are joining forces at Futurebuild 2020. Ahead of the event, Trudi Sully, Impact Director for Manufacturing at the Construction Innovation Hub, considers the drive to deliver innovation to...
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LEXiCON: A new phase in a collaborative journey
The construction industry is one of the last to become fully digitised. The construction industry is made up of several sectors, all communicating in different ways, across many subjects. The products sector is not immune to this fragmentation, and despite various...
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