{"id":66891,"date":"2019-11-06T14:01:25","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T14:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=66891"},"modified":"2023-03-11T18:17:02","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T18:17:02","slug":"globalisation-constructive-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/globalisation-constructive-force\/66891\/","title":{"rendered":"BSRIA whitepaper: How globalisation affects design and construction"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Globalisation remains a hot topic of debate, and an often controversial one at that. Henry Lawson, author of a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bsria.com\/uk\/product\/Vn2p2B\/megatrends_\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BSRIA Megatrends<\/a> white paper on the subject, looks at the key factors behind it and how it affects building design, construction and services<\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">One of the most famous modern buildings in the world, Norman Foster\u2019s iconic HSBC headquarters in Hong Kong, is unusual in many ways, one being that it was designed so that it could, if necessary, be dismantled and then rebuilt elsewhere. This is, of course, the exception, and we tend to think of buildings as mostly fixed, immovable structures. And yet building services and construction are likely to be influenced as much by the forces of globalisation as most others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Today we confront a paradox. Roughly 97% of the world\u2019s population still live in the country they were born in and yet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/hr-skills-news\/built-environment-demographics\/55115\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">movements of people<\/a>, capital and influence around the world are one of the greatest sources of debate. Yet while figures as powerful as the US president are raising questions about globalisation, it seems set to continue in some form, with far-reaching consequences.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This is because globalisation combines at least four deep-seated forces, each of which interact, often reinforcing each other. For example, economic forces have political and cultural consequences and vice-versa.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">1.1.1 Economic globalisation<\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Valuable resources are often concentrated in limited areas of the world, which means that associated goods have to be transported and traded (or plundered) in order for them to be used in other countries and regions. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Classical economic theory also suggests that efficiency will be improved where individuals, organisations and countries specialise in particular activities or industries and exchange the products for other goods and services via trade. A country or region can acquire a unique concentration of expertise drawn from the wider world, as with the City of London\u2019s financial expertise, or California\u2019s dominance in hi-tech industries.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">1.1.2 Political globalisation<\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Organisations and countries have increasingly chosen to cooperate at a regional or global level to address perceived common problems, which can include threats to peace, to health and welfare or to the environment. In particular, the fight against global warming requires global cooperation while the UN and related branches deal with everything from poverty to matters of war and peace.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">1.1.3 Cultural globalisation<\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Anyone who travels the world can see that there is a similar \u201clook and feel\u201d to much of daily life, with values and norms shared across wide areas of the globe, and buildings and streets in many cities which \u201ccould be almost anywhere\u201d. This can be deliberate or as a consequence of other trends. It is exemplified by people in similar clothes shopping for global brands and enjoying the same entertainment in similarly designed buildings.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">1.1.4 Technology and globalisation<\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Huge technological advances have enabled the fast, cheap and relatively safe movement of people and goods between countries and continents. More recently, it has enabled almost instant transmission of information, ideas and images across the globe, especially via the world wide web, which has also supported the rapidly emerging Internet of Things and cloud computing.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The impact on building services<\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Non-residential buildings often resemble each other across the world, with familiar form and materials, and are managed and controlled using a similar <\/span><span class=\"s1\">range of services. While the design of homes is often more conservative and linked to traditional styles, the trend towards more modular design means that individual components are often interchangeable. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">With buildings accounting for up to 40% of energy usage in developed countries, global climate change is encouraging stricter regulations about building energy efficiency, which can be agreed at a supra national level (as in the European Union), at a national or regional level, and which have a direct impact on both building design and associated services.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Global standard organisations from ISO to more specialised standards for building services (such as <a href=\"https:\/\/project-haystack.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Project Haystack<\/a>, which establishes a common taxonomy, allowing different building systems to \u2018talk to\u2019 each other and exchange data) are making it easy for building services companies to address the global market.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Cyber threats can come from any part of the world and mean that all buildings need protection by services capable of countering the global threat. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Building Automation Controls (BACS) industry has become truly global with the top four companies accounting for half of the global BACS product market, while the air conditioning market is seeing more consolidation via mergers and acquisitions, as well as frequent collaborations between major players.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The smart homes market is also becoming more global in nature, especially with the entry of global tech corporates such as Google, Amazon, Apple and Samsung.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">There is already a large global market for building materials from timber and concrete to fixtures and fittings. The UK alone imported more than \u00a317bn worth of building materials in 2017, with electrical wires representing the most valuable category and, for that matter, the biggest export category.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Significantly, over 60% of both UK exports and imports related to the European Union, so the UK\u2019s future relationship with the EU will have a huge impact on the building services industry from this standpoint alone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The construction industry in the UK and in some other major developed economies has become heavily dependent on labour from other countries. In 2018, the UK government estimated that 7.5% of construction workers were from other EU countries, with an additional 3% from outside the EU. In London, the percentage of foreign construction workers was estimated to be as high as 35%.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In Germany, migrant construction workers have allowed the industry to grow despite an actual decline in the number of German-born construction workers. The debate about the positives and negatives of global migration needs to take factors like this into account.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">All this means that, despite some signs of resistance to globalisation, the factors contributing to it, from technological advances to major environmental problems, are, if anything, accelerating.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Anyone in the building services industry will need to bear globalisation in mind (with its promise and its pitfalls) in the key decisions that they take in coming years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This article is based on the BSRIA white paper, Global Megatrends \u2013 Globalisation, which is one of a series of four Megatrends white papers available for purchase from BSRIA (or free to BSRIA members) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bsria.com\/uk\/product\/Vn2p2B\/megatrends_globalisation_wp_112019_a15d25e1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">Henry Lawson<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Senior Market Research Consultant<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bsria.com\/uk\/market-intelligence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\">Worldwide Market Intelligence<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bsria.com\/uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\">BSRIA<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Tel: +44 (0)1344 465600<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s3\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bsria.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.bsria.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Twitter:\u00a0<span class=\"s3\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bsrialtd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bsrialtd<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>LinkedIn:\u00a0<span class=\"s3\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/bsria\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bsria<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>YouTube: <span class=\"s3\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/BSRIALtd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BSRIALtd<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Globalisation remains a hot topic of debate, and an often controversial one at that. 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