BIM-enabled Learning Environment for Digital Construction

31/07/2026

The TalTech team presented 2 papers to the 13th Nordic Conference on Construction Economics and Organisation held in Espoo, Finland on the 28-29th May 2026:
“Beyond Flat Retrieval: A Cognitive-Inspired Agentic Framework for Hierarchical Construction Contract Review” by Alok Rawat, Emlyn Witt and Irene Lill;
and
“Green Transition Barriers and Stakeholder Exposure in the Construction Sector” by Muhammad Mubasher, Emlyn Witt and Simo Ilomets.

Both conference papers have been supported by the Housing Decarbonisation Skills for Climate, Health, and Jobs (Skills4Deca) project https://skills4deca.eu/ —grant number: DIGITAL-2022-SKILLS-03-SPECIALISEDEDU-101123311 of the European Union’s Digital Europe Programme, the Empowering Trainers for Digital innovation in construction Ecosystem (ET4D) project https://www.et4digital.eu/ —grant number: 2024-1-IT01-KA220-VET-000249119 and the REnewable and SUstainable REhabilitation of Cultural and HisToric buildings After Disaster (RESUrRECT – AiD) project https://site.unibo.it/resurrect-aid/en – grant number: 2025-1-IT02-KA220-HED-000361564 both of the Erasmus Plus Programme of the European Union. The European Commission’s support in producing these publications does not constitute an endorsement of the contents that reflect the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use that may be made of the information contained therein.

The papers will soon be published in IOP conference proceedings.

12/02/2026

The Empowering Trainers for Digital Innovation in the Construction Ecosystem (ET4D) project has published 3 reports on an innovative demonstrator for a new teaching approach for the digital transition. In addition, ET4D's Newsletter 2 is now available. You can find copies of the reports here: https://benedictproject.eu/?page_id=709
and the newsletter here:
https://benedictproject.eu/?page_id=694

Comprising 95% SMEs and micro-enterprises, the construction sector often resists adopting innovative technologies such as BIM, IoT, Augmented Reality, and Digital Twin. These technologies are essential for addressing challenges related to competitiveness, innovation, and sustainability. ET4Digital ...

31/01/2026

Latest results from the ET4D project on the construction site Digital Twin for training and a recent Transnational Training event held at IIPLE in Bologna can be found here:

The digital transformation of the construction sector requires concrete tools, appropriate skills, and new approaches to training. Building on this awareness, the ET4Digital project has developed an innovative demonstrator and a transnational training pathway dedicated to trainers, with the aim of m...

31/10/2025

The Empowering Trainers for Digital Innovation in the Construction Ecosystem (ET4D) project has just published its report on the Analysis of the Digital Ecosystem in the Construction Sector. You can find a copy of it here: https://benedictproject.eu/?page_id=709

24/07/2025

✨ "𝑨 𝑪𝒐𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒑𝒕𝒖𝒂𝒍 𝑭𝒓𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝑳𝑳𝑴-𝒃𝒂𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝑴𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒊-𝒂𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝑺𝒚𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒎 𝒊𝒏 𝑪𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑴𝒂𝒏𝒂𝒈𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕” 𝒃𝒚 𝑨𝒍𝒐𝒌 𝑹𝒂𝒘𝒂𝒕 (𝑻𝒂𝒍𝑻𝒆𝒄𝒉) - an ET4Digital-related conference paper - was presented to the 2025 EC³ - European Conference on Computing in Construction in Porto, Portugal on 17th July.💡👷

The paper explores the application of agentic AI - one of the latest and most advanced digital technology innovations - to improve construction management processes. ✨
The paper is co-funded by the ET4Digital project.

🔎 Check out the presentation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKWiJIVFmrQ&t=202s

🔎 The paper will also soon be available on the EC3 2025 conference proceedings webpage: https://ec-3.org/publications/computing-in-construction/

15/05/2025

The Empowering Trainers for Digital Innovation in the Construction Ecosystem (ET4D) includes partners from Benedict project ( , ) and continues our work taking forward digital innovation in construction through education and training initiatives. The first issue of the ET4D Newsletter has now been published. You can find it here: https://benedictproject.eu/?page_id=694

27/04/2025

ET4Digital project

Benedict project partners TalTech - Tallinna Tehnikaülikool and Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna are very pleased to be continuing work on the development of digital education and skills for construction industry innovation. We are now working together in the 𝐄𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐃𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 (ET4Digital) project coordinated by IIPLE (Scuola Edile di Bologna).

After research mapping digital technologies in the construction sector led by R2M Solution, a hybrid Stakeholders Panel event was hosted by ΠΕΔΜΕΔΕ in Athens, Greece and online on 15th April 2025. We now look forward to developing an 𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫 for use by construction sector teachers and trainers. This part of the project will be led by Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna.

For more information, please visit the ET4Digital project website:

Comprising 95% SMEs and micro-enterprises, the construction sector often resists adopting innovative technologies such as BIM, IoT, Augmented Reality, and Digital Twin. These technologies are essential for addressing challenges related to competitiveness, innovation, and sustainability. ET4Digital ...

23/08/2023

The latest BENEDICT project Newsletter is now available on the project website:

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18/07/2023

BENEDICT team member Caterina Morganti (Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna) attended the 2023 EC³ - European Conference on Computing in Construction in Heraklion, Crete, Greece (10th July - 12th July 2023) and made a presentation entitled: "Teaching BIM: a comparison between actual and future perspectives".

If you would like to read the paper, you can find it here 📄😉⬇️

https://ec-3.org/publications/conference/paper/?id=EC32023_212

10/07/2023

The Benedict project team came together for the final international event - a short-term joint staff training course which took place from June 19th-21st at the TalTech campus in Tallinn. In total, 18 delegates from the three partner universities, TTK University of Applied Sciences and REC industry representatives attended.