Industry Event Digital Construction Week
Hosted across two days on 17-18 May 2023 at ExCeL London, DCW is set to return with insights and inspiration to help built environment professionals design, build and operate better.
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he exhibition will showcase the innovative products that are revolutionising the built environment. Emerging technologies and solutions will be on display, including digital twins, augmented reality, information management, automation and AI, DfMA, robotics and more. Visitors will discover how these solutions can help them be more efficient, collaborative, connected, sustainable and profitable.
The event will highlight over 150 big-name brands and cutting-edge start-ups, showcasing the latest tech, tools and solutions for digital construction.
Event director and co-founder of DCW, Ollie Hughes, said: “We’re excited to be planning a stand-out event for 2023, that offers even more opportunities for the industry to connect, collaborate and innovate. DCW is THE place to learn about the transformative technologies driving change and improving outcomes across the built environment. With free registration now open, we can’t wait to welcome our visitors on 17-18 May.”
Education programme
The event features a CPD-accredited programme packed with 160+ hours of free-to-attend content delivered by 300+ expert speakers from across the built environment.
Nine theatres focused on some of the key areas shaping digital construction. These include information management, asset management, geospatial, visualisation, digital transformation, Net Zero and more.
The theatres are home to high profile presenters and curated panel discussions covering the industry’s most pressing issues. Last year, the programme included speakers from Bryden Wood, Construction Innovation Hub, the Government & Industry Interoperability Group (GIIG), Mace, Skanksa, The Red Sea Development Company (TRSDC), and Turner & Townsend. Other big names who shared their ideas at the 2022 show included Bella Nguyen, PhD, sustainability program manager for Amazon Transportation Services; Dale Sinclair, director and head of digital innovation at WSP and Alison Watson MBE, founder and chief executive at Class Of Your Own.
Attendees can expect to be inspired and informed by a wide range of talks and panels, exploring new ideas and actionable insights. The full programme will be announced in the spring.
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pass through a complex network of people and businesses. There are multiple sources, and multiple users, of the same data. Standardised product data is therefore the key to successful digitalisation.
Successful digitalisation requires participation from all stakeholders in the construction process including manufacturers, merchants, distributors and wholesalers.
Dame Judith Hackitt
Dame Judith Hackitt to chair ETIM UK discussion at DCW
ETIM UK’s panel at Digital Construction Week, featuring four senior representatives from across the construction supply chain, will discuss building safety as a driver for digitalisation and the need for standardised product data to enable and accelerate the process.
Dame Judith Hackitt is set to chair the panel discussion. In the wake of the Grenfell Tower disaster, Dame Judith conducted an Independent Review for UK Government into Building Regulations and Fire Safety. Since publishing her final report in 2018 she has continued to press for regulatory change and for industry culture change. Her recommendations for radical reform of the regulatory system recently received Royal Assent in the Building Safety Act 2022.
In every construction project, data needs to
ETIM is the tried and tested data international standard for structured product data, specifically technical and performance data. It was adopted by the Builders Merchants Federation (BMF) in 2019 for building materials, HVAC and plumbing products, having been introduced to the UK’s electrotechnical sector in 2017 by the Electrical Distributors’ Association (EDA).
Margaret Fitzsimons, CEO at the EDA, said: “Everyone in the construction industry agrees that complete, accurate, up-to-date and traceable product information is of vital importance to our sector. We also agree that the manufacturer is the owner of that data. What is not clear, however, is what format that data should take and how it should move along the value chain efficiently so that it is usable by all players from building concept to demolition. The EDA is working with manufacturers and wholesalers to adopt a standard data model, ETIM, so that data can be shared in their transactions and more widely across the full construction value chain. This standardised data is the gold from which the golden thread is woven and key to building safety.”
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