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The journey to the connected construction site of the future
The connected construction site of the future can boost productivity, reduce inefficiencies, improve safety, and make it easier to predict the cost of projects, but the reality of a truly connected site is a long way off for many construction companies. But there are barriers to this becoming a reality, requiring changes to traditional approaches to procurement, delivery and business models. The right mix of connectivity standards is needed, and this will mean navigating licensing issues.
Contracting for connected construction
Traditional infrastructure contracts and technology contracts are very different, and simply adopting one approach or the other is not going to work. Traditional construction-based approaches to ‘works information’, charging models and risk allocation and liability regimes are unlikely to be appropriate or acceptable to technology providers. Contract terms in relation to data and intellectual property are unlikely to be adequate for dealing with technology requirements.
The construction site of the future
Construction companies will need to grapple with new and different technologies and requirements, engage with new and different supply chain and project partners, and develop and adapt traditional procurement, sourcing and contracting approaches and construction processes, to realise the benefits this transformation will provide.
Construction data: what can be collected and how it can help
There is scope to make construction projects more efficient and ‘greener’, and buildings safer, by harnessing the power of data. However, businesses face a challenge in collecting, organising, structuring and sharing the vast volumes of data generated in the planning, design, construction, operation and maintenance of infrastructure in a way that would allow the benefits to be realised across industry.
How to collaborate using construction data
Industrialised construction, and the innovation it promises, depends on the emergence of a fully functioning data economy. We are seeing new models of collaboration emerging between connected parties in the data economy in the commercialisation of business models. This is how the benefits of data will be realised.
How to overcome construction data challenges
Out-Law Analysis | 19 Nov 2021 | 11:06 am | 5 min. read Transformation of the construction sector requires changes in data management culture and for the industry to prepare and plan for an industrialised approach to the sharing of data across stakeholders to emerge. Failing to plan properly can lead to risks and issues including reputational, compliance and commercial problems. Data management Good data management forms the cornerstone of any data strategy.
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NIC looks to industry to help inform its technology study
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Link between technology and infrastructure productivity to be examined by National Infrastructure Commission
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Technology has a central role within the vision for UK infrastructure, says expert
Harnessing the power of technology was a central theme of the National Needs Assessment (NNA) report, which Pinsent Masons, the law firm behind Out-Law.com, contributed to. The NNA report sets out a vision for UK infrastructure and is intended to guide the government-backed National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) as it produces its own National Infrastructure Assessment (NIA) for the government, planned for 2018.
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