Consequently, it now takes a few days to do what used to take months..
The Building Research Establishment (BRE), dealing with the quality and assurance aspects..The Centre for Digital Built Britain (CDBB), handling information management and the need for data in order to foster learning in everything we do, and to do things in a more efficient and effective way..
The opportunity for this sort of package was recognized in the 2017 Industrial Strategy.This was a significant step because the problems facing construction are long-standing and well known.During the last few decades, while other large industries have gone through transformational levels of change, the construction industry has remained relatively static.
Following on from the Latham and Egan reports in the 1990s, in 2016 the Farmer Report concluded that the industry must “modernise or die.”.Sully says that the key element we’ve been missing in construction is the ethos of collaboration and innovation found in other industries.
It’s a somewhat odd situation considering that the construction industry is inherently a collaborative one.
Every asset we build requires many different parties to work together, but when the projects end, people go their separate ways as competitors.The client might say that they would have to dig a large hole in the ground.
When asked why, the client might typically respond, ‘When working with water you always do that’.The answer would likely again be, ‘Well, because that’s what the book says’.
repeatedly moves the conversation and enables both parties to imagine other scenarios; not burying the facility underground and instead building it above ground, for instance.This persistent question-asking can unlock the project, opening it up to a previously unthought of solution.