Embracing Digital Transformation:.
This digitisation or automation of all aspects of the design and the data attached to it, allows an automated checking process that isn’t subject to human error, so teams can be confident that the testing and certification is rigorous and holistic..In traditional construction, data is manually tweaked, but this human interpretation and intervention can break the compliance thread.
When automated, it is easier to track even the smallest of changes and immediately understand the implications of substitutions.The data remains ‘clean’..The digital library establishes a digitised quality assurance process that means we can trace and record critical data from design through to operation..
Automated design configuration enables speedier up-front design.The data library can then be embedded in configurators: digital web-based apps/software, which apply the digital data to automatically generate anything from a schedule of room types, to a full, digital asset model..
This would revolutionise the speed with which up front design could be achieved, overcoming the challenge to investors presented by the need for more upfront design..
Primary School Configurator.The benefits of this new way of working warrant the risk, and there is a risk when suggesting something new and different.
Success will come from approaching it like a journey and doing things collaboratively..There are new ideas and technologies to embrace, new people to hire with different skill sets.
These things are risks to an industry worried about profit margins, business and retaining current clients.As such, we see that it’s simultaneously an easy thing to do, and a very difficult one.