{"id":102225,"date":"2021-11-29T12:09:48","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T12:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=102225"},"modified":"2021-12-01T16:00:12","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T16:00:12","slug":"the-built-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/digital-construction-news\/bim-news\/the-built-environment\/102225\/","title":{"rendered":"The built environment: Putting the future in the frame"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new Digital Capabilities Framework from the Construction Innovation Hub<\/a> aims to support and nurture the digital capabilities of early career professionals across built environment disciplines. Henry Fenby-Taylor, information management delivery lead, explains<\/h2>\n

Our recently published Digital Capabilities Framework<\/a>\u00a0underlines the vital importance of digital ways of working and how these can be used to transform the built environment sector. It is the latest tool<\/a> delivered by the Hub as part of our integrated programme consisting of the Value Toolkit, Platform Programme, International Programme and Information Management, as we co-develop solutions that enable better decision-making, drive digital transformation, improve delivery and accelerate sector recovery.<\/p>\n

By clearly setting out what all early career built environment professionals<\/a> need to know, and be able to do, to work digitally after around two years in their profession, the framework gives them both the tools and aims to develop a shared and consistent vocabulary that is needed to hasten the pace of transformational change in the sector.<\/p>\n

It was this hunger for change that drove the framework\u2019s development as we sought new ways to support the government\u2019s Build Back Better agenda<\/a> and to meet the increasingly complex challenges we face.<\/p>\n

Transforming Infrastructure Performance: Roadmap to 2030<\/a> highlighted the pressing need for a fundamental shift in the culture and make-up of the built environment to make the sector a top choice for young people and called for a focus on anticipating the growing need for competencies in areas such as digital, automation and sustainability, rather than simply filling current gaps.<\/p>\n

The Construction Leadership Council\u2019s Industry Skills Plan<\/a> for the UK Construction Sector 2021\u20132025 aims to tackle these issues by setting out plans for high-quality training and development to build an industry that is a great place to work, with clear routes of entry and progression to attract and retain talented people. Our framework aligns with and seeks to support the report\u2019s Challenge 2.3: Routes into industry \u2013 Higher education.<\/p>\n

Exemplifying the collaborative ethos that underpins our work, the framework was developed in partnership with 150 industry experts, early career professionals and academics. It was also shaped by research and insights from a series of workshops with recent graduates and their managers from a range of built environment disciplines, as well as a series of roundtables with academic course leaders, professional institutions and industry representatives.<\/p>\n

We consulted with recent graduates and their managers, senior representatives from across industry, professional institutions and course leaders from BA and master\u2019s degrees in the built environment to develop and test the framework. We also built on prior research and undertook stakeholder interviews and internal consultations. An initial framework was then presented to the project\u2019s Advisory Group, along with a plan for development which included a series of workshops with early career professionals.<\/p>\n

The framework is designed to stimulate discussion and action by enabling industry, built environment undergraduate and master\u2019s course providers and professional institutions to provide a common language and structure around which all professionals and disciplines can unite to support the development of the digital capabilities the sector needs.<\/p>\n

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Core digital capabilities<\/h3>\n

At the heart of the framework are six built environment core digital capabilities identified as essential for all built environment disciplines:<\/p>\n