HEADING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION Clearly digitisation and technology adoption are going to require a change management process , and that will take a number of years , but is the construction industry making strides in the right direction ? And what do businesses need to do to keep pace with the likes of manufacturing sector ? “ It ’ s about the repeatability of processes . If you think about manufacturing , there ’ s a production line and a set of suppliers who will deliver products over a period of time . But what happens in construction is that it ’ s all very bespoke . Every project is different ,” says Jasper . He also adds that , as far as digitisation goes , it ’ s not purely about processes : “ For example , with manufacturing you can control the environment because a lot of it is happening in a plant and you can set up production lines etc ., but in construction it ’ s different ,” he tells us . “ Say you ’ ve got a project in the centre of London . You have very little control over that environment because you have to interact with government , the general community and the site itself . You may have different sites too , so how do you
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