We aren’t exclusively referring to the process of manufacturing large modules in factories and moving everything off construction sites.

’ set out by the Cambridge Centre for Digital Built Britain state that ‘Greater data sharing could release an additional £7bn per year of benefits across the UK infrastructure sectors’.However, to realise these benefits we will have to use a consistent way to describe assets, as was done in ‘Defining the Need’.. ‘Digital Tools’.

include the new workflows that a Platform construction approach will unlock, including automated and computational design.Digital tools and spatial analysis are strongly linked; it is through the spatial analysis work that we have derived the rules that underpin our configurators.for housing and schools respectively, or computational design workflows such as.

Rapid Engineering Model.(REM) for Highways England, or.

Rail: Automated Infrastructure Design.

(RAID) for Network Rail.. ‘Delivery’.In fact, some of the sensors needed to undertake this type of work are incredibly inexpensive.

They could easily be placed inside a concrete mix, and would simply broadcast for the next five years uninterrupted.. At Bryden Wood, we anticipate that this type of construction technology work could also fuel the next generation of concrete mixes, as well as influencing the type of AI technology that’s starting to plan schedules and program onsite.Logistics could also be affected.

Essentially, there is a massive, potential long-term benefit to gathering this type of data.Unfortunately, while we already have the ability to use IoT successfully to gather substantial amounts of this type of useful information, investment for this type of work isn’t necessarily present at the moment.