21st Century Construction

Crushed by a horse, now crushing prejudice [00:32] Elite Australian athlete Hacia Atherton spent seven months in hospital recovering from a near-fatal accident in 2017. She was told she may never walk again, but she was having none of it. It took many months after leaving hospital, but she fought the pain and self-doubt to get back on her feet. In the process, she hatched a new mission in life: to...

The home of great construction stories. We go behind the headlines to meet the people who envision, create and manage the built world. Brought to you by the Chartered Institute of Building. Got a topic you'd like us to cover? Email the podcast editor Rod Sweet rod@atompublishing.co.uk In this episode: New-homes confidence crisis [01:20] In December, CIOB published results from a survey that showed...

The home of great construction stories. We go behind the headlines to meet the people who envision, create and manage the built world. Brought to you by the Chartered Institute of Building. In this episode: Refugees building Britain [00:50] Yemeni refugee Omar tells Cristina Lago how important his construction job is. Jargon Buster [16:27] What exactly do IFC and Cobie mean? And do you really need...

The home of great construction stories. We go behind the headlines to meet the people who envision, create and manage the built world. Brought to you by the Chartered Institute of Building. This episode: [01:25] Abbi Taylor describes what happened after her dad broke his back falling from a ladder on a construction site when she was three. [09:16] 21CC jargon buster in chief Justin Stanton decodes...

The home of great construction stories. We go behind the headlines to meet the people who envision, create and manage the built world. Brought to you by the Chartered Institute of Building. In this episode, CM’s Cristina Lago grills ex-Arup engineer Stevan Lukic about the AI chatbot he developed for construction projects. Does it hallucinate? [01:23] [08:44] Our expert panel discusses where AI sit...

Welcome to the fourth episode of the 21CC Podcast, brought to you by the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB). The home of great construction stories. We go behind the headlines to meet the people who envision, create and manage the built world. This episode, Will Mann reports on an AI tool developed to detect RAAC in buildings [11:38]; Rod Sweet explores a proposal to build a Roman-style coloss...

Welcome to the third episode of the 21CC podcast, brought to you by the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB). The home of great construction stories. We go behind the headlines to meet the people who envision, create and manage the built world. This episode we explore why a line is the worst possible layout for a planned new city in the desert [01:44]. Pioneering female crane operator Katie Kell...

Welcome to the second episode of the 21CC podcast, brought to you by the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB).21CC is short for 21st Century Construction, which means we’ll be looking ahead to the challenges the industry faces, such as Quality and Safety, Sustainability, and Skills. In this episode 1979’s Usborne Book of the Future set out what life would be like in the 2000s. How correct was it...

Welcome to the first episode of the 21CC podcast, brought to you by the Chartered Institute of Building. 21CC is short for 21st Century Construction, which means we’ll be looking ahead to the challenges the industry faces, such as Quality and Safety, Sustainability, and Skills. In this episode With all eyes on Ukraine just now, we hear from a Canadian architect whose team has developed a modular,...

The home of great construction stories. We go behind the headlines to meet the people who envision, create and manage the built world. Brought to you by the Chartered Institute of Building. Editor Rod Sweet outlines in one minute how we hope to bring the people stories behind the headlines...brought to you by CIOB