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The Chartered Institute of Building | June 15, 2020

Covid-19 testing stations would ensure any outbreaks are tracked and traced as quickly as possible, enabling construction to bounce back quickly and safely. The CIOB’s proposal to integrate major British construction sites into the recently launched NHS Test and Trace system, to enable the regular testing of workers without risking further transmission of the virus, comes in the institute’s recent submission to a consultation on Covid-19 recovery by the Business, Energ...

PBC Today | November 05, 2020

It may appear the 2050 zero-carbon deadline is far off in the future. However, if we are to eliminate all carbon-based sources of energy throughout the UK, work must begin now on a whole-system approach, Bryan Palmer, senior civil engineer at Burns & McDonnell explores. Engineering will be key to success as the UK moves towards meeting its zero-carbon goals by 2050, and digital technologies will be at the core of an engineering-led approach. With the right model, we can optimise energy syste...

PBC Today | July 28, 2020

Many are concerned about the impact Covid-19 will have on education. It is therefore even more important that school building programmes get back on track as soon as possible to ensure teachers and students have the best possible environments as they make up for lost time. Here, MPBA chief executive Jackie Maginnis considers how Modern Methods of Construction can assist. Back in January, the Department for Education (DfE) revealed the offsite schools framework “to cultivate ...

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Prophecy | June 23, 2022

Prophecy, the leading low-code platform for data engineering, announced the launch of Prophecy for Databricks, a powerful new offering that makes it easier and faster to build data pipelines that deliver the data for business intelligence and machine learning. This platform, with a visual drag-and-drop canvas, enables anyone that wants to do data engineering to visually and interactively develop, deploy and monitor data pipelines on Apache Spark. Built for use by both season...