Alex Elderton, head of digital transformation at VolkerFitzpatrick, spoke at the Digital Construction Summit 2023, in association with Elecosoft, about the digital systems changing the contractor’s site operations. Here, he picks out three simple tools making a big impact.

The annual Bright Futures Student Challenge once again proved that there is a wealth of talent waiting to come into the construction industry.

Connecting a new riverside development meant traversing a number of significant infrastructure assets including rail lines, a freight yard, HS1 tunnels, roads and a waterway.

Two 2,000t tunnelling machines digging the HS2 tunnel under the Chilterns have completed the first stage of works.

VolkerFitzpatrick has completed the first building in the UK to achieve an ‘Outstanding’ rating under the latest BREEAM ‘New Construction 2018’ guidance.

Align JV, the team made up on Bouygues, Sir Robert McAlpine and VolkerFitzpatrick, has cast the first of 56 concrete piers supporting the Colne Valley Viaduct, set to become the UK’s longest railway bridge, for HS2.

VolkerFitzpatrick has installed tonnes of steelwork for the concourse of a new mainline railway station in Brent Cross.