A steering committee of major international construction industry stakeholders has been set up to facilitate the implementation and development of a common machine-readable language.
Rumela Atanasova speaks with Andrew Knight as they discuss the challenges and opportunities of integrating Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) into the construction process.
Standard Online and Cobuilder join forces to digitise the content of standards through the development of machine-readable data templates for the construction industry.
Cobuilder, IFS and GS1 have joined forces in a pilot project that seeks to demonstrate the benefits of standards-based data sharing throughout all phases of construction and asset lifecycle management.
In April this year, the Danish construction knowledge center Molio partnered up with Cobuilder to create a common data dictionary for the Danish construction industry. The goal of this project is to establish a common digital language that enables information to flow freely flow between all actors. We met with the project manager, Mikkel Nygaard Rønne, to get an update on the progress and to learn more about Molio’s approach to the task at hand.
In September, Cobuilder released a new module in its solution Collaborate that helps projects to automatically check and ensure that the construction products and materials they are applying are approved for use in projects seeking Nordic Swan Ecolabel certification.
In a special interview for Cobuilder, Mr. Allen shares insights into glass technology, explains why some of today’s practices can put people’s safety at risk and discusses the role of better information management to address such issues.
The Danish construction information center Molio has initiated a project together with Cobuilder to create a data dictionary for the Danish construction industry. This enables the use of a common "digital language" that allows actors across the entire sector to freely exchange digital data.
The Product Circularity Data Sheet (PCDS) is a standardised digital fingerprint for sharing trusted data on the circularity characteristics of products across supply chains. The PCDS has been developed by the Ministry of Economy of Luxembourg and +ImpaKT, in collaboration with more than 50 international organizations. Today, the PCDS is being made available internationally to thousands of users through Cobuilder's solution Define.
The European Confederation of Woodworking Industries, CEI-Bois, entered recently into a strategic partnership with the Cobuilder. The new pilot project aims to help manufacturers digitise and make their data available in a machine-readable and standardised format.
