As the industry faces ongoing challenges, they are adopting digital technologies like AI to automate and optimize their operations and cloud-based solutions to simplify fragmented IT systems.
Companies are increasingly investing in an industrialized construction strategy and adapting their business processes to improve project delivery performance.
In an industry with low project margins, a high level of unpredictability, and fierce competition (both domestic and international), it does not take much to turn a profitable project into a loss-making project, putting the whole business at risk.
If contractors knew the best way to capture site data for each kind of job, whether it was using laser scans, drones or their own smartphones, it would certainly solve some problems up front.
Autodesk is working on an AEC-focused cloud collaboration platform, and says it will continue to push the industry to change its workflows and processes to be more data-centric and less process-centric.
Construction technology can lead our industry out of crisis and to better work practices. Bentley technology executive offers contractors a five-point plan to more efficiency.
Within the Construction and Engineering (C&E) sector, a connected supply chain is more than just an efficiency driver—it’s a significant competitive advantage.