Digital Transformation in the Construction Sector – Revisiting the Roadmap for 2025
Wednesday February 26th 2020 Maynooth UniversityWhy Participate?
Digital technologies and streamlined processes will transform the entire building and construction sector. With this initiative we aim to facilitate and help the industry to explore its potential and understand how best to adopt and implement Digital technologies. These include advances in BIM standards, virtual and augmented reality, automation, robotics, internet of things, drones, and many more together with novel artificial intelligence, analytics and blockchain approaches are able to improve the profitability and efficiency, and create a smarter and more diverse industry. Large projects typically take 20 percent longer to finish than scheduled and are up to 80 percent over budget (Mckinsey), and as a result financial returns for contractors are often relatively low.
One study found that 75 percent of those that adopted BIM reported a positive return on investment, shorter project life cycles, and savings on paperwork and material costs. The benefits of BIM and digital technologies are evident, and many companies have already embraced automated construction workflows, analytics and digitalisation. However, the adoption of BIM is somehow slow, and thus hampers the increase of collaboration, through open standards. In addition, challenges to adopt digital technologies specific to the construction sector have a role in the slow pace of digitization.
By revisiting the digital transformation roadmap we aim to explore the opportunities for large construction projects and shaping a vision for 2025. This workshop will analyse and discuss possible digital services/solutions to tackle the challenges ahead. With a small group of experts and leaders, we seek to define a digital construction value network and ecosystem, business models and enabling technologies. We will identify a possible strategy and action plan to position key stakeholders ahead of the competition.
Forming a focused research initiative
To get the full benefit of BIM technology, project owners and contractors need to incorporate its use right from the design stage, and all stakeholders need to adopt standardized design and data-reporting formats compatible with BIM. In addition, owners and contractors need to dedicate resources for BIM implementation and invest in capability building.Â
The intent is to build a working consortium of stakeholders, business and researchers, who ‘stay together’ over the coming two years, to share and engage in this discovery and definition effort. We ‘learn and apply’ together. Ideally, we establish a core group that drive specific aspects, and a broader group that appreciate the shared knowledge and contribute as they can. Our current thinking is to run bi- annual detailed workshops. With this workshop we aim to find answers to the following question:Â
- What is the action plan to achieve 2025 objectives toward paperless construction projects?  Â
- What are the practical reasons to rely on paper plans, reports, schedule, etc.?Â
- What are the potential digital solutions to reduce dependency on paper documents for construction projects?
- What are the BIM related challenges in large-scale construction projects?Â
- What skills and trainings are mostly required to move toward more efficient use of digital technologies?Â
Who should attend?
This is an invitation-only event for select senior leaders, business unit leaders, programme managers, Innovation leaders across the spectrum of the construction sector with an interest in Digital Transformation and Building information Modelling and Management. Â
Outputs:
- Possible scenarios and value network(s)
- Prioritisation of challenges
- Action plan to address key challengesÂ
The Facilitators
Prof Markus Helfert
Dr Zohreh Pourzolfaghar
Michael Hanley
Ralph Montague
Dr Kris McGlinn
Your Hosts
The Innovation Value Institute (IVI) is a multidisciplinary research and education institute co-founded in 2006 by Maynooth University and Intel Corporation with the support of the Irish Government.
IVI’s mission is to research, develop and disseminate empirically proven and industry validated IT best practice through a unique open innovation and collaboration between leading academic and industry practitioners.
Computers have become a part of everybody’s daily life, and in the Department of Computer Science we teach how computer systems work, with a particular focus on software, and we research into how computer systems will develop into the future. Our courses cover a wide spectrum of topics from software to computer hardware, from internal details of operating systems to computer applications, and from software engineering practice to computational theory. Our approach is to instill a thorough understanding of fundamental principles, while developing analytical abilities and practical skills.
View Agenda
| 09:30 – 10:00 | Registration & Tea/Coffee |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Agenda and Introductions |
| 10:30 – 11:20 | Focused Learning – Setting the scene (Zohreh Purzolfaghar, IVI) Briefing on the challenges to realise digital twin in construction industry |
| 11:20 – 12:10 | Discovery Activity – Mapping the Contextual Landscape: Explore benefits of using BIM in real world projects Identify challenges to use BIM technology in real projects Prioritising the challenges to be resolved from practice perspective |
| 12:10 – 13:00 | Discovery Activity – Exploring Opportunities (Michael Healy, IVI) Using Root Cause Analysis identify: 1. Organisational challenges 2. Dominant challenges and potential solutions 3. Exploring opportunities |
| 13:00 – 13:45 | Lunch Break |
| 13:45 – 14:30 | Discovery Activity – Digital Construction 2025 objectives Categorise various stakeholders Characterise how various stakeholders define success Identify and prioritise required features |
| 14:30 – 15:10 | Design Activity – Innovation to achieve 2025 objectives Innovative services to improve project planning coordination Innovative services for performance analytics Innovative services to reduce information sharing delay |
| 15:10 – 15:20 | Tea/Coffee Break |
| 15:20 – 15:45 | Activity – Journey to Enterprise Architecture Practices for 2025 Action Plan for innovation creation Identify metrics to validate progress |
| 15:45 – 16:00 | Follow Up – IVI Research Engagement & Support Opportunities Reflect on today’s learnings / Key takeaways Next Steps |
| 16:00 – 16:05 | Wrap and Close |
The location:
Wednesday February 26th 2020
Maynooth University
Innovation Value Institute, 2nd Floor,
Eolas Building,
North Campus,
Maynooth University
Registration for this workshop is now closed
