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Our projects also look at tangible social benefits.

We envision that there is likely to be about a ten-year window of opportunity here, and the industry needs to make a start.It also seems likely that within the grand scheme of things on the horizon, the digital work will take longer than the physical aspects, and we should be conscious of that.. Miranda Sharp reminds us that digitising planning and the wider built environment won’t be easy to do.

Some of the necessary work will be boring, and it will be a grind to make the data interoperable and set the transaction mechanisms.Aligning standards, cleaning up data and creating transformation will all take a long time.The industry wants a silver bullet, it wants to skip to the end, but there’s some fairly heavy lifting to be done first.

Sharp says we need to get better about taking the quick wins.The sooner we start, the sooner we’ll reach our goal.

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http://bit.ly/BWNewsUpdatesDesign to Value.What’s more, the idea of pre-prototyping components before we get to site should mean there is very little left to learn.

Ultimately, this creates far fewer opportunities for snags and delays.. Reducing risk in construction and attracting investors.Changing the risk profile of construction should unlock investment into the industry.

As things stand, we know from talking to funders that construction is seen as the riskiest investment option by far.Conversely, we know there’s a great deal of interest in financing clean technology, so there’s a lot of money going into an associated industry.