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Baby Thomas's Journey: A Triumph of Resilience

Baby Thomas's Journey: A Triumph of Resilience

Thomas, has faced significant challenges since his birth. His parents, Christina and Joseph, have shown unwavering love and dedication throughout his journey. With the support of T…

A New Addition to the World: Baby Thomas

While Thomas is currently in the neonatal care unit, we're hopeful for a smooth recovery. The journey ahead will undoubtedly have its challenges, but with the love and support of h…

Overcoming Common Programme Challenges with Start 2 Finish

Overcoming Common Programme Challenges with Start 2 Finish

Are you frustrated with the lack of detail in your construction programme?

Bike Ride Completed

Bike Ride Completed

more photos and updates soon. In the meantime, we’ve raised nearly £300 in sponsorship money there are some GoFundMe fees but not bad! - keep an eye on our fundraisings page (which…

Test Ride

Test Ride

Team Update: Geared Up and Ready to Roll!

An Update on Baby Thomas:

There's been an exciting development with baby Thomas, and we wanted to share it with all of you following our journey. As you know, Thomas was diagnosed with Congenital Diaphragma…

Every Pedal Stroke Makes a Difference - Hope on Two Wheels

As the Oxford Bike Ride draws closer, a surge of excitement and determination fuels our training. In our previous blogs, you met the incredible team spirit behind this challenge an…

Building Hope for Babies - a 25 mile fundraiser Bike Ride around Oxford.  23rd June, 2024

Building Hope for Babies - a 25 mile fundraiser Bike Ride around Oxford. 23rd June, 2024

At Start 2 Finish Project Planning Ltd , we believe in giving back to the community and supporting causes that are close to our hearts. Recently, some dear friends received some wo…

Stay on Track: Strategies for Dealing with Delays and Unexpected Changes in Construction

Stay on Track: Strategies for Dealing with Delays and Unexpected Changes in Construction

Construction projects are complex undertakings that require careful planning, coordination, and execution to ensure timely completion. However, delays and unexpected changes can oc…

Mastering Time: Proven Strategies for Managing and Updating Construction Programmes

Mastering Time: Proven Strategies for Managing and Updating Construction Programmes

The first step in managing and updating a construction programme is to create a realistic work breakdown structure that takes into account all the activities and resources involved…

A Quick Word with Start 2 Finish Employee Tomôs Jackson:

Me: Tom - What encouraged you to turn your digital experience into real space construction experience?

Benefits of Drones in Construction

Benefits of Drones in Construction

Drones are becoming more and more popular across a range of industries, and the construction industry is no exception. In this blog post, we will discuss how drones are being used…

The use of Digital Twins During Construction

The use of Digital Twins During Construction

This blog post continues the theme of utilising digital twins throughout the various construction phases. The first post talked about digital twins during the pre-construction stag…

Digital Twins for Pre-Construction

Digital Twins for Pre-Construction

There are many advantages to the construction industry to embrace the use of digital twins throughout the pre-construction, construction and post-construction phases.

Meet Our Newest Member - The Parrot ANAFI Ai drone

Meet Our Newest Member - The Parrot ANAFI Ai drone

We will soon take delivery of a new commercial drone to accompany our existing Phantom 4 Pro drone.

Heritage Projects

Heritage Projects

At university I was introduced to an ongoing project for the historic town of Malmesbury, The town wants to develop an application that allows tourists both on the ground and onlin…

Dissertation Data Collection

Dissertation Data Collection

Tomôs is on the last lap of his final year, and would appreciate your input. He is busy conducting a survey on Augmented Reality and it's place in the world of Heritage sites. Here…

Suzanne Dibble - Small Business Legal Academy

Suzanne Dibble - Small Business Legal Academy

Suzanne Dibble has been a lawyer for over 20 years and she helps small businesses thrive in the litigious environment of today. she has worked with Richard Branson and various high…

Recording the Construction Processes and Architectural Concepts

Recording the Construction Processes and Architectural Concepts

Certainly one of the huge privileges of doing the work that we do on construction sites involves playing a small part in recording the construction processes and architectural conc…

Restoration of a Recusant Hideaway

Restoration of a Recusant Hideaway

The first phase of the Plas Gunter Mansion Digital Tour is nearing completion, so I'm posting about it again; In Collaboration with Plas Gunter Trustees and Owen Davies Consulting…

Treasures of our National Heritage…

Treasures of our National Heritage…

I’ve been a bit busy, but, due to the type of buildings I’ve been scanning recently, I became a bit curious about the types of books that the people that built our heritage, might…

Phew!

Phew!

We had a hectic couple of days recently - but pondering the pros and cons of scanning public spaces, they certainly have advantages - the lovely thing is that we get encouraged to…

Matterport Certified!

Matterport Certified!

I passed! I passed! I passed! I've sat all the conventional exams that you may have heard of, from Ceccetti Method Classical Ballet and GCSE to CAD/CAE City and Guilds, A Levels an…

First Things first...

Most Technicians start with a plan of how they will approach a job, and the more information, the better; however, sometimes the plan on paper is not quite what you foresaw in real…

Our Lady and St Michael's

Our Lady and St Michael's

My fascination with the Recusant Period of Catholic history was built into my childhood by my father. Our family outings in a rather battered old camper van seemed to involve inves…

Plas Gunter Project

Plas Gunter Project

On the 29th of October last week we were honoured to be invited to Plas Gunter to create a digital twin of the Plas Gunter Mansion.

St Mary's Priory, Monmouth

Familiarity with the historic town of Monmouth came about because our family annual holidays involved taking the campervan through the town to do a tour of the relatives. It was an…

How to navigate a Start 2 Finish digital model:

How to navigate a Start 2 Finish digital model:

A 3D tour is quite intuitive to use for the "gamer generation" because the keyboard keys used to navigate are the same… but here are a few tips for a newbie.

Intern

Intern

The esteemed title "Intern" at Start 2 Finish means you get to experience every aspect of the business, from collecting sandwiches and planning a technician's approach to digital m…

Intern’s Graduation

Intern’s Graduation

Who better to train a young man in his profession than his father?

Teamwork Makes the Dream Work

Teamwork Makes the Dream Work

In this month of CDH awareness this sponsored bike ride becomes doubly important so building on the momentum from our previous blog, today we delve deeper into the collaborative sp…