The use of digital tools is an important part of DfMA which relies on capturing knowledge about how a building will be delivered from the earliest stages..
We’ve been watching this process evolve over time, with BIM focused on digitising the design and construction of projects.What we’re really aiming for though, is a future state where we’re able to understand and measure and digitise the actual performance of built assets.
At that stage, we’ll be able to use the data to create insights beyond one particular project.Instead, the data will help us understand network and system level impacts.We’ll be able to evaluate specifically how an energy project, a transport project, a school and a housing scheme interact.
Digital twins and federated digital twins will enable us to understand how things are actively performing..Whereas, originally, this effort focused on the capital phase of a single construction project, with digital twins we’ll be dealing with the whole life of an asset, and how it relates to, and integrates with,its environment and the other assets around it.
That level of data will provide huge knowledge and insight, which in turn will help us to make better decisions supporting our broader set of Design for Value outcomes.
We’ll be able to make decisions about how we want to intervene, and it could end up shaping the policy environment.The majority of objections are linked to cultural mindset factors.
These include issues like insurance warranties, intellectual property, and risk allocation in construction.We’re not suggesting traditional construction isn’t risky.
We know from government data that almost 10% of their spending on construction is allocated to risk.This hasn’t changed despite many years of operating in this way.
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