BARRIERS TO CHANGE
ENGINEERING
68 agree that digitisation will influence every one of their processes .”
This month , Construction Global explores the key reasons behind slow adoption of digital manufacturing technologies in the construction sector , and examines the ways in which digital manufacturing can benefit the industry .
BARRIERS TO CHANGE
In many ways , the global construction industry has operated in much the same ways for hundreds of years . The world ’ s most common building materials have been a part of our structures for millennia , and many markets still rely on cheap , low-skill manual labour as an alternative to more modern solutions . The nature of construction projects and the way that they ’ re typically organised also creates problems , as we ’ ll explore . In short , in addition to the usual problems that can plague a digital transformation ( like unclear goals , failed integrations , uncooperative workforces ) there are elements of the construction sector itself that are uniquely opposed to sweeping digital transformation , which go a long way towards explaining why the sector is stuck in an analogue age .
SUMMER / AUTUMN 2020