Education

When it comes to finding a job and encouraging emerging professionals to excel in their new career path, making sure that graduates have the skills they need for the position plays an essential role. Students who do not have the necessary skills will quickly find themselves struggling in their new position. They may start to […]

In the past few years, drones have become one of the most compelling construction trends. The industry has experienced a 239% growth in drone use year over year, higher than any other commercial sector. Their aerial vantage point and data collecting abilities make them a viable tool, offering benefits ranging from on-site safety to remote monitoring. As the […]

Planning for your career is tough. There are a thousand and one things to consider. From the cost of education, your interests, job satisfaction, pay and managing social expectations; this is not an easy undertaking. Thankfully, there are many career paths and one compelling route is Technical and Vocational Education and Training or TVET for short. TVET equips […]

The construction industry is leveraging technology to make construction management and site operations more efficient and sustainable. The major construction industry trends include building information modeling (BIM), construction robotics, and the use of advanced building materials. Further, the COVID-19 pandemic creates the need for newer ways of construction that adhere to worker safety and regulations. […]

The construction industry is subject to many enduring pain points. The sector lacks enough skilled workforce, has stagnant productivity levels (1% growth in productivity over the past 20 years) and struggles with collaboration on project management. Several technologies have emerged to help address construction’s biggest woes. One of them is building information modelling (BIM). Building information […]

A a designer, it helps to draw inspiration from other disciplines now and again. The world of modern and contemporary architecture, for example, has produced some truly jaw-dropping monuments to human ingenuity and aesthetic sensibility that are certainly worth a good look. We’ve rounded up a selection of some of the most famous architecture of […]

Construction has a long history of innovation that has spurred impressive advances in the types of buildings we can produce. For example, the development of cofferdams and caissons opened the door for majestic underwater structures. Meanwhile, advancements in tower crane technology propelled construction upward, opening up the possibility for massive skyscrapers. After a long construction boom, the year following […]

When it comes to the construction industry and the process of building anything, there are stages and considerations to be thought of. How does a construction project come about? Construction projects can be commissioned publicly, municipal agencies or privately. Projects such as highways, pipelines, and residential structures or facilities such as hospitals and stadiums fall […]

In architecture, ideas need to be communicated visually and the fastest method and probably the best one too for idea expression is sketching. Yet many new architectural students who are just starting lack the natural ability to create such architectural sketching. They will need to rely on mentors to explain the basics of sketching which will […]

BIM has been the talk of the town in the AEC industry for several years. Yet, for all the talk, there is a lot of confusion about BIM in construction and how it can help contractors. One common misconception is that BIM is merely a technology, or that it only refers to 3D design (though 3D models […]