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Enterprise Ireland\u2019s John Hunt tells PBC Today that digital transformation is the key to improving productivity and cutting waste in construction \u2013 and discusses how BIM technology is opening the door for many SMEs to compete on a larger stage<\/h2>\n

“Across Europe, the recession had quite an impact on the capacity of the construction sector, so we\u2019ve seen, whether in Germany, France, the UK or Ireland, lots of people leave the industry, not so many people coming into the industry and people retiring,\u201d says John Hunt, Enterprise Ireland\u2019s<\/a> senior market adviser for the construction sector.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs our economy picks up \u2013 and that\u2019s happening across Europe now \u2013 we\u2019re seeing an increasing movement of labour to try and fill the gaps.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meeting the challenge of improving productivity and increasing capacity<\/a> when the number of people coming into the sector is much lower than in the past has been one of the \u201ckey motivators\u201d behind the adoption of BIM and digital technology.<\/p>\n

Whereas England and Scotland have used BIM Level 2 to mandate its use on centrally procured government contracts (there is no explicit central BIM mandate in Wales), Ireland has had a different experience of BIM adoption, with it occurring more organically, Hunt says.<\/p>\n

The National Development Finance Agency<\/a> had a \u20ac1bn-plus programme of public projects that had BIM technology as a requirement but there were also big private sector clients, such as Intel and Apple, as well as large pharma companies, that had large, complex projects well suited to BIM.<\/p>\n

Many Irish companies, of course, have one foot in the UK and that organic adoption has set them in good stead. In 2017, an industry survey conducted by Construction IT Alliance<\/a> (CITA) and Enterprise Ireland revealed that 76% of AEC respondents possessed confidence in their organisation\u2019s BIM skills and knowledge.<\/p>\n

\u201cBIM has been the door opener to structuring and digitising information in a way that allows other software and hardware companies to interface with the sector,\u201d Hunt says.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn that vein of productivity, what we\u2019re seeing probably more than other area is software companies and software-as-a-service companies coming into the market and saying, we can create an app or a piece of software that will make processes more efficient or more productive.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen there are a number of companies in the project management space who are using dashboards for better client engagement. You have companies like Initiafy, which have software to reduce the administrative burden on onboarding labour and such-like.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere a number of companies doing mobile field management, so it\u2019s getting the data out of the model to the people out on the sites to give them the information in mobile platforms.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s where the innovation is coming from. BIM is facilitating better information at the right time, in the right place, for the right person.\u201d<\/p>\n

BIM and DFMA<\/h3>\n

Another area where BIM<\/a> is having a major impact is design for manufacture and assembly (DFMA).<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re seeing the offsite companies working with far better data sets, whether that be info from a model or laser scanning of buildings,\u201d says Hunt.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s also enabling software companies to come in and see what we do and find automated ways of doing things that we\u2019ve done in a very traditional, 2D manner if you like, with lots of waste in terms of time and labour input.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt really is that transaction time \u2013 not the transaction of goods or contracts \u2013 it\u2019s the transaction of information. \u201cIf you look at the volumetric offsite organisations, these are the companies who are really embracing digitisation through their supply chain and getting much, much smoother transactions between their suppliers.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a really good place to look in terms where the industry could go, where we\u2019ve got the supply chain all very neat, all very vertical. Accuracy and completeness of information is really helping.\u201d<\/p>\n

BIM boost for SMEs<\/h3>\n

BIM\u2019s focus on efficiency, automation and collaboration means smaller companies \u2013 who are often more agile and adaptable to cultural change \u2013 have increasingly been able to compete with larger organisations at the design level.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey don\u2019t need 20 or 30 people to do the production schedules; this can be automated. It can be knocked over in hours rather than days and days,\u201d says Hunt.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd the QA is all built-in as well. You can get scripts and algorithms that will do a lot of this now \u2013 how good is my information; how complete is it? There\u2019s a lot of verification and validation tools coming into the market as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s never been more pressure on trying to do things more productively because of cost of labour and also availability of labour. Partners who have that experience, who\u2019ve made that transition, who can deliver projects productively and accurately, who have embraced and can work with the technology, are those in pole position.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"BIMTech on the rise<\/h3>\n

The advance of technology in all areas of our lives shows no signs of abating \u2013 and construction is no exception, with the rise of drones, VR and 3D printing. Hunt says this disruption could be crucial in addressing some of the industry\u2019s biggest challenges \u2013 as well as offering a wealth of new opportunities for those willing to embrace the frantic pace of change.<\/p>\n

\u201cDrones are a really good example. What you can scan now with a drone, what would have taken weeks or months can be days. That\u2019s a big saving on labour time and cost \u2013 but also the accuracy of the information is far easier to validate and verify, and to use,” he says.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not just the collection of the data; it\u2019s how that information is processed and transferred into a format that other people can use. We\u2019ve got a company called Headcount that\u2019s developed an app that takes scan data and turns it into model information in a second. A few years ago, that would have been a very manual process that would have taken days and been quite labour-intensive \u2013 and again, the quality would be hard to assess.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow a company has come in, done some research and developed a tool that turns that into minutes, not days, with consistency and reliability.\u201d<\/p>\n

The nature of digital technology<\/a> also opens up the world like never before.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe reach of construction companies has really been revolutionised. You can address multiple markets simultaneously \u2013 that\u2019s one of the characteristics of companies we\u2019re working with at the moment,\u201d says Hunt.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the past, it might have taken a company 10 years to build up the capability or manpower to go from Ireland to the UK, to the US.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow we see small businesses scale and grow in the first three years with a product or app being supported or marketed from an HQ in Ireland.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith digitisation, you can get people working in different markets or jurisdictions. If you\u2019re working on a digital platform, you can pass it to the office in Malaysia overnight and someone else can work on it and it can come back. Technology isn\u2019t really a respecter of borders or boundaries; it\u2019s a solution that can be very accessible.\u201d<\/p>\n

Future challenges<\/h3>\n

But while technology is opening up the world, we are also living in period of major political change and uncertainty, not least over Brexit and the UK\u2019s future relationship with Ireland and the wider EU.<\/p>\n

For Hunt, this is undoubtedly a challenge \u2013 but uncertainty is a fact of life and can often be an engine for positive change.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe enemy of innovation is complacency. When you don\u2019t need to change, you become very \u2018uninnovative\u2019,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

John Hunt<\/strong><\/p>\n

Senior Market Adviser, Construction Sector<\/p>\n

Enterprise Ireland<\/p>\n

Tel: +44 (0)207 438 8700<\/p>\n

http:\/\/enterprise-ireland.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n

Twitter: @Entirl<\/a><\/p>\n

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