Why You Should Care About ISO 19650 in 2023
Delays, cost overruns, and disputes are all too common in the Architectural, Engineering, Construction, and Operational (AECO) industries. In fact, large projects typically take 20% longer to finish...
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What the Industry is Reading: Top 10 Asite Blogs of 2022
From soaring material prices to ongoing economy and political instability, the last 12 months have...
Is a Common Data Environment Right for You? Take the Quiz
Whether you’re a project manager on a jobsite in London or a building owner in Abu Dhabi, you could...
Top 4 Construction Industry Trends You Need to Know in 2023
The construction industry is constantly evolving. Transforming from an industry once solely...
Breaking the Bank: 10 Most Expensive Cities in the World for Construction
Construction costs are only going in one direction—up. While the year started full of post-pandemic...
COP27 & Construction: 3 Ways Digital Twins Supports Sustainability
Each year, the Conference of the Parties (COP)—the group of nations that have signed the UN...
5 Ways Mobile Technology Can Benefit the Construction Industry
Whether we want to admit it or not, most of us have become dependent on mobile tech. And in the...
Why Smart Construction is the Construction Industry's Greatest Hero
While Marvel has had a hold over superheroes for the last decade, there is a new kid on the block...
Why the ISO 19650 Standard Matters for the Middle East AECO Industry
The Museum of the Future in Dubai. The new high-tech city of NEOM in Saudi Arabia. The Burj...
The Background, Benefits, & Outlook of BIM in the Middle East
Building Information Modeling (BIM) is a "digital representation of a physical building or...
How Mobile Technology Has Modernized the Construction Industry
Mobile technology has become a fundamental part of everyday life—from how we consume information,...
4 Benefits of BIM Collaboration
Do you know what BIM stands for? These three letters can significantly impact your business—for the...
5 Mega Projects in the Middle East Making the Most of Digital Twins
What if there was a technology that allowed you to anticipate problems, simulate scenarios,...
3 Must-See Digital Trends for the Construction Industry
What do you call robots laying bricks? Paper documents being digitized? Or embedded material...
Delivering an Industry-Leading Fully Compliant CDE for Virtus Ltd
Asite Helps the UK’s Leading Temporary Traffic and Highway Management Expert Achieve its BS EN ISO...
Explained: Interoperability and Integration and the Construction Industry
The Architecture, Engineering, Construction, and Operations (AECO) industry is experiencing a shift...
What New Laws & Rules Are Impacting UK & Dutch Construction?
Complicated and sometimes convoluted, laws, rules, regulations, and legislations dictate everything...
6 Global Projects Meeting Their Goals with Asite
For over 20 years, Asite has been helping organizations come together, plan, design, and build with...
Future Homes and Building Standards: What it Means for Housebuilders
Construction—and all sectors within it—is one of the backbones of the UK economy, employing over 3...
Top 5 Middle East Transport Construction Projects
Home to the biggest airport in the world—King Fahd International Airport in Damman, Kingdom of...
3 Sustainable Materials Set to Disrupt the Construction Industry
Responsible for 39% of carbon emissions globally and using 32% of the world’s natural resources,...
3 Problems Tech Solves on the Construction Site
The construction industry is famously digitally adverse. It ranks as one of the least digitized in...
How Digital Twins Can Drive Sustainability and Retrofit at Scale
Sustainability isn’t just about what we build next, but also what we have already built. There is...
What is Net Zero and What Does it Mean for the Built Environment?
The climate is one of, if not the biggest, challenges we currently face. Extreme weather events,...
Manual to Configurable—What is the Best Way to Manage Your Construction Project?
Construction projects are complex at best and confusing at worst. Stakeholders from across the...
How Digital Twins are Key to Delivering Better Construction Projects
Digital twins have the potential to transform the world around us. In fact, many industries are...
Top 5 Tourism Construction Projects in the Middle East
The Middle East is a high-growth region for tourism, with many countries choosing tourism as their...
4 Government Projects Transforming the BENELUX Region in 2022
Given its vital importance to the economy, governments play a huge role in the construction...
Buying New Construction Software? Here are 3 Tech Support Questions to Ask
Let’s set the scene: You’ve just purchased a new piece of construction software, and you’ve run...
5 BENELUX Projects to Watch in 2022
Responsible for over 18 million direct jobs and contributing approximately 9% of GDP, the...
Who’s Paying Up to End the UK Cladding Crisis?
After the government drew a hard line, UK construction firms in April agreed to remedy unsafe...
Ultimate Stress Buster: 6 Ways to Reduce Project Chaos
According to research, over 80% of construction workers have experienced stress at work. This can...
Are You Keeping Workers Safe On-Site All Year Long?
Whether you’re a construction superintendent on the jobsite or the CEO back at the office, worker...
5 Construction Mega Projects to Watch in the Middle East
From 3D printing to digital twins, technology is revolutionizing the way the construction industry...
5 Benefits of Going Paperless this Earth Day
The average construction projects produce massive amounts of information, from safety documents and...
Why Data Silos Are Your Project's Greatest Enemy
A single construction project involves countless stakeholders—asset owners, project managers,...
4 UK Housing Projects to Watch Out for in 2022
Output in the UK should rise by 4.3% in 2022, slowing to 2.5% in 2023. This follows a rise of 13.3%...
Embracing New Technologies: Will Tech Solve the UK Housing Crisis?
In 2021, an estimated 8.5 million people in England had some form of unmet housing need, according...
7 Ways Your Construction Business Wins with a CDE
Is bad document management eating into your time and budget? Or perhaps collaboration is your...
5 Benefits of 3D Printing for the Construction Industry
3D Printing is a billion-dollar industry. In fact, the 3D printing construction market will be...
5 Cities Making the Most of Digital Twins
Digital twins are revolutionizing the construction industry globally.
How Data Can Help Decarbonize the Built Environment
Even though the stats are common knowledge, it doesn’t make them any less startling. The built...
Understanding the UK Cladding Crisis
On 14 June 2017, a fire ripped through Grenfell Tower, a 24-story residential tower block in West...
5 Steps to Start Your Construction Digital Transformation Journey
Have you made the digital leap? If not, it’s about time. Digital transformation helps you take...
Why Collaboration is King for BIM Success
The construction industry has come a long way from drafting assets with pen and paper, moving first...
5 Infrastructure Projects to Watch in North America
President Biden’s ground-breaking legislation—the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of...
How Construction Ecosystems are Bridging the Standards Gap
Single point solutions. Data silos. Very little interaction. Now multiply these normal ways of...
Getting Construction Projects Future-Ready with a CDE
It can be easy to let your mind run away with you when you think of tomorrow's construction...
How the Billion-Dollar 3D Printing Market is Set to Transform Construction
Robotics and AI are set to light up the construction industry in a big way in 2022. And number one...
3 Tips to Improve Asset Handover
Relationships between asset managers and their project counterparts are fraught at the best of...
What is ESG and What Does it Mean for the Construction Industry?
Health and safety initiatives are nothing new in the engineering and construction industry. But...
Debunking the Myths Around ISO 19650 in APAC
BIM is booming. And with it comes the ISO 19650 standards to manage information over the whole...
Why the Asia-Pacific AECO Industry Needs ISO 19650 Standard
You never want to be ranked at the bottom of any list.
5 Reasons You Should Become ISO 19650 Compliant
While many may be apprehensive about investing in BIM and implementing the right technologies and...
4 Reasons to Embrace Digital Tech in 2022
This blog was published in conjunction with DCD Magazine.
4 Steps to Becoming ISO 19650 Compliant
For many, ISO 19650 compliance can sometimes feel like a daunting task—a total revamp of your set...
The Future of Development in Harrow, London—3 Key Learnings
Earlier this year, Harrow Council joined forces with Wates Residential to begin a long-term...
Budget or Bust: Top 10 Most Expensive Cities for Construction
Before you begin any construction project, from a large-scale infrastructure project to a building...
COP26 & Construction: Are Digital Twins the Answer?
The COP26 summit cast a harsh light on the immediate threat of climate breakdown.
Cloud Vs. PC—The Best Place to Keep Your Construction Project Information Safe
When it comes to managing construction project information, keeping data safe can be a struggle....
5 Key Takeaways from Asite’s Uncovering the ROI in a Common Data Environment Webinar
Project inefficiencies, low productivity, data silos, and lack of collaboration are ravaging the...
Tech Stack Break Up Quiz
Breaking up is never easy. Ever feel like you’re the only one investing time with your tech stack?...
Is a CDE Right for You? 10 Questions to Ask
The average construction project brings together multiple stakeholders from different...
Explained: Industry 4.0 and the Construction Industry
Industry 4.0—dubbed Construction 4.0 within the industry—can transform how construction projects...
Frightening Facts and Spooky Stats: Construction Edition
Just in time for Halloween, we’re taking a look at some of the spooky horrors that can turn your...
5 Terrifying Tales from the Construction Site
If there's something strange on your construction site, who you gonna call?
4 Reasons Why You Need a Single Source of Truth
From design to bid to build, a single construction project produces a lot of data and information....
Is Your Siloed Data Costing You Millions?
Bad data. Duplicates. Information silos. Each year, construction projects waste millions of pounds...
4 Tips to Kick-Start Your Team Collaboration
If you’ve ever wondered about the high cost of poor collaboration—just consider this case: An...
Country Breakdown: How these 6 Countries are Driving Construction Decarbonization
Find out how the UK, USA, UAE, KSA, EU, Australia, & India are responding to “code red” climate...
Unlocking the Power of Modern Methods of Construction
The global construction industry today is fraught with issues—from an aging workforce to a skills...
4 Tips to Keep Your Team Safe On-Site
Construction sites are one of the deadliest modern workplaces.
4 Best Practices for Implementing a new Document Management System
Implementing new technology, like a Document Management System (DMS), to manage your construction...
5 Key Takeaways from Asite’s BuildSmart Webinar
Digital technologies—cloud computing, data and analytics, site automation, and machine...
COVID-19 - A Key Driver of Digital Transformation
The COVID-19 pandemic has acted as a digital accelerator, causing organizations and individuals...
Digital Transformation: How to Improve your Business Strategy and Remain Competitive
At its heart, digital transformation is the reaction of business to the digital age.
Three Key Takeaways from Asite's Digital Twin Webinar
With this rise of new technologies, digital twins are becoming increasingly common, leading to...
Digital Infrastructure and the Road to Recovery
The term digital infrastructure relates to the physical resources and foundational services which...
What can we learn from the UK's National Data Strategy
In response to the great technological changes that have taken place over the past five years, the...
Three Key Takeaways from Asite’s BIM & Digital Construction Webinar
Ensuring better collaboration across the construction industry is the key to higher productivity...
Capital Projects and Infrastructure Developments that Build Better with Asite
Asite’s platform enables organizations to come together, plan, design, and build with seamless...
Responding to COVID-19 – a global industry but no global response
As the global COVID-19 outbreak escalates, the construction industry continues to adapt. As...
China, the beacon of hope – How the construction industry is responding to COVID-19
COVID-19 has caused widespread disruption to the construction industry internationally. The initial...
Why a Common Data Environment is Essential for Your Project?
A Common Data Environment (CDE) is a central repository where construction project information is...
The Best of BIM Show Live – The Biggest Takeaways
Last week Asite attended BIM Show Live, the annual two-day conference which brings together leading...