The rapidly changing construction industry, modern technologies, sustainability, and project management are revolutionizing our work.
Understanding these trends is crucial to remaining on the competitive edge. With ever changing environmental regulations, you will need new tools like drones and immersive technologies to work smarter.
To deliver high-quality constructions and meet your clients’ expectations you must stay informed, demonstrate leadership, and ensure you can meet all challenges.
To open new opportunities for delivering high-quality work and staying competitive in a tough environment like the construction industry, it is important to adopt emerging trends and new technologies, implement sustainability practices, and continuous learning.
After the COVID-19 pandemic, which disorganized the construction supply chain worldwide, 2025 will bring more challenges.
The combination of labor shortages and issues in the supply chain created by the Ukraine and Israeli wars caused project managers difficulties finding the right resources at the right price. Uncertainty in the supply chain will remain.
Issues with two of the world’s crucial trade routes, Panama and Suez, will create geopolitical tensions in sourcing and distribution. That could force the construction industry to redesign trade routes built over decades.
Businesses in the industry will also have to pursue clean energy supply chains by accelerating modular and prefabrication construction.
Manufacturing logistics networks associated with these techniques mitigate climate change, but the costs of components will increase.
New alternative materials will have to be found to alleviate the cost of the resources.
The urbanization of emerging economies is growing fast, increasing demand for new construction.
This trend is also forcing the construction 4.0 market to grow. Let us explore some of the technologies behind the movement.
Construction companies have embraced 3D printing to build houses, but this technology needs to be expanded to a wider market.
When costs are substantially reduced, 3D-printed concrete houses will grow!
Some new materials are still in development, but others are already existent and affordable on the market.
For examples:
Materials like concrete that self-repair cracks, or permeable concrete holding rainwater will help prevent floods.
Graphene, a material 100 times stronger than steel, is highly recommended for building structures that can resist hurricane winds.
Plant-based insulation is non-toxic and sustainable and can prove efficient in extreme weather conditions, not allowing heat or cold to penetrate buildings.
Cloud connectivity helped Tesla, Google, Apple, and Uber to develop self-driving cars.
There has the potential to become a great money-saving and safety improvement to implement this technology worldwide in the sector.
Autonomous bulldozers, cranes and excavators using sensors may operate without human intervention with complete precision.
Robots are used on hazardous building sites. They operate with great precision, reducing waste by using a complex range of sensors to manage and find materials and avoid accidents involving vehicles or people.
Robots are also used to repair dangerous structures such as dams.
Drones are used, to survey sites worldwide, monitor assets and people's movements, and inspect the projects' progress.
Using sensors to gather building maintenance data during the construction phase may provide insights into the construction performance. This helps facility managers to understand energy efficiency, electricity consumption, and many other aspects of the building.
Unfortunately, these innovative technologies are not yet accessible and affordable for all. However, construction project management software helps construction companies, even the smallest ones, to find a solution that fits their needs.
These changes are or will be possible thanks to collaboration, faster problem resolution, and digital models of buildings before construction begins.
The USA needs 500,000+ more workers to meet demand. In 2025, labor shortages will certainly remain a concern.
The main issues are an aging workforce and a high turnover rate of new workers.
The industry will have to automate its processes and use Artificial Intelligence to boost efficiency, strengthen employee retention, attract the younger generation, and make recruitment attractive by offering competitive wages and benefits.
Partnering with universities may give access to recently trained workers, to keep your projects on track despite the labor crunch.
New technologies, like virtual design and visualization, are often used in construction project management. They are:
When we discuss these technologies, the term used is Virtual Design and Construction (VDC).
VDC is software, used by engineers, to work on virtual environments and visualize the construction of structures before they are built in the physical world.
The hardware tools in virtual environments are desktops, mobile devices, and augmented and virtual reality headsets.
In 2025 new regulations will be introduced worldwide to improve site safety, prevent accidents, and ensure worker protection.
Staying compliant with the new and old safety standards is crucial to mitigate risks on-site.
Adopting modern technologies like wearables or helmets with sensors, smart vests, and real-time monitoring devices will help you to meet the requirements of a safe and efficient work environment.
In 2025, supply chain disruptions will continue driving up prices as finding materials will be difficult. The price increases of wood, plastics, and thermal protection materials may be as high as 6.5% annually.
Building trustworthy relationships with your suppliers is mandatory to help you avoid delays and keep your projects running smoothly and on budget.
Putting sustainability at the forefront of your supply chain management is not negotiable anymore because the construction industry is creating high quantities of waste, generating carbon dioxide emissions and other greenhouse gases, negatively impacting climate change.
The sector consumes copious amounts of energy, not just on-site and manufacturing, but the products used in buildings.
It is important to be aware of inevitable changes to stay competitive and survive.
Driving Vision can help you to decide if you need to invest in technology. Our technology diagnostic looks at the best way to incorporate modern technology into your workflows and how to move your organization to cloud computing so you can open new possibilities for your daily planning tasks and make sure your data never leaves the optimally secured data center.
The technology appraisal report will help you explore the investment required to improve your projects’ productivity and collaboration and the ROI you can expect.
A Driving Vision expert will conduct interviews online, issue a report, and discuss our findings with you. Together we will decide the best way to implement the solutions at your pace and according to your budget.
Implementing BIM can be daunting, but Driving Vision is here to help you at the pace you are comfortable with. Get started by getting in touch now
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