Construction 4.0: Digitizing the Construction Industry
Construction 4.0 represents the digitization of the construction industry and encompasses the technologies shown in the picture below
The first step in implementing Construction 4.0 is identifying repetitive and hazardous tasks, and automating common processes within the industry.
Next, evaluate which technologies are essential for your workflows. Should your organization transition to cloud computing? Perhaps you want to explore new opportunities for daily planning tasks, ensuring data remains secure in an optimally protected data center.
Digitalization enhances the quality and sustainability of your projects.
One of our clients, a midsize construction company, relied heavily on manual processes involving Excel and Word.
They utilized an internal drive alongside a separate cloud-based system for documentation. However, due to the lack of integration between these two systems, teams often had to duplicate their efforts by saving documents in both locations.
Access to these systems was limited, which made collaboration cumbersome and time-consuming. Without a single repository for information, their projects suffered from a lack of standardization.
Site managers frequently labeled and stored documents in their manner, complicating quick access to information and making audits of company procedures laborious. Additionally, they could not view plans on their mobile devices.
Post-implementation, team members no longer spent their days on administrative tasks like saving, printing, and emailing documents. Instead, they focused on more critical aspects of a project, such as quality and safety.
By leveraging mobile functionality and the power of cloud desktops, office-based teams could view, update, and share documents (including plans) with the site, eliminating unnecessary trips to the office.
"Site managers may gain two to three hours every day. They are now free to concentrate on the core deliverables of our projects, which are quality and safety."
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You minimise the level of investment required to implement BIM as we share the Research and Development costs with other client
You increase your revenue by staying ahead of the competition as BIM best practices allows you to win bigger and more rewarding projects.
You reduce your costs, more than our fees cost you, by decreasing potential litigations, rework, and errors and omissions
