Technology

6 Emerging Digital Construction Technologies Impacting Environmental Sustainability

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Digital technologies are electronic tools, devices, systems, and resources which generate, store or process data. The construction industry is increasingly witnessing the application of these technologies in the design, construction, operations and maintenance of buildings and infrastructure projects. By helping construction teams allocate resources more efficiently, automate manual repetitive tasks, increase accuracy, and reduce waste … Read more

7 Tips to Protect Yourself from Hackers Online

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Actionable tips to protect yourself from hackers online by making it hard for them to infiltrate your devices and steal sensitive data. The web has been a very disruptive technology that has revolutionized how we do things since its inception in 1989. Businesses can run their operations online, including selling products, sending communications, and marketing. … Read more

Fundamental Uses of BIM and Benefits to Quantity Surveyors

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Fundamental uses of BIM, or BIM dimensions, refer to the levels of information in a given BIM information model. Consider the following: A brief on the developments in construction IT: Traditional paper-based processes involved 2D drawings and text-based specifications that were not linked together. With advances in IT, these drawings could be created on a … Read more

The Most Important Skill I Learned from Coding and Quantity Surveying

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Problem-solving! Yes, you guessed right. It’s one of the most important skills I have picked from these two diverse practices. To put you in the right context for this discussion, it is important to mention that I studied Quantity Surveying at the university and have been practising it since graduation. Also, I started learning coding … Read more

What is WordPress?

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What is WordPress

You must have come across the term “WordPress” while searching for website building software for non-technical people. It is a free open-source website creation platform that allows users to create a blog or a website without having to understand any programming language. Technical people would define it as a content management system (CMS) written in … Read more

The Evolution of the World Wide Web

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The creation of the world wide web is attributed to Sir Berners Lee in 1989. Lee was working as a fellow at the CERN Laboratory (The European Organization for Nuclear Research) in Geneva, Switzerland when he first outlined his concept of “a computer platform that could facilitate collaboration among researchers who were based in different … Read more