{"id":79560,"date":"2020-07-20T11:05:25","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T10:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=79560"},"modified":"2020-07-23T13:01:48","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T12:01:48","slug":"aec-proactive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/digital-construction-news\/construction-technology-news\/aec-proactive\/79560\/","title":{"rendered":"Consortium wins \u00a31.6m to make AEC industry more proactive"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Consortium partners <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macegroup.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mace<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/3drepo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">3D Repo<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Imperial College<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucl.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">University College London<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/evifile.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">eviFile<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/missionroom.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mission Room<\/a> have won \u00a31.6m of funding to improve productivity, quality, and performance of the UK construction sector<\/h2>\n<p>Led by Mace, the project partners have joined forces to improve productivity, quality, and performance of the UK construction sector, as part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/transforming-construction-driving-innovation\/61448\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Transforming UK Construction<\/a>: demonstrator projects funding competition.<\/p>\n<p>The consortium of partners has successfully won \u00a31.6m of funding from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/innovate-uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Innovate UK<\/a>. The total project cost is \u00a33.6m.<\/p>\n<p>It follows on from previous Innovate UK funded projects of 3D Repo, namely <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/bim-news\/aec-delta-mobility\/76849\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AEC Delta Mobility<\/a> led by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.burohappold.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BuroHappold<\/a>, VISUALISE led by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skanska.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Skanska<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i3p.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">i3P<\/a> funded SafetiBase.<\/p>\n<p>The fund is also part of a larger initiative by the UK government with a \u00a34.7bn increase in research and development over the next 4 years.<\/p>\n<p>The team will create a solution to help UK construction be more efficient and proactive rather than reactive, with a scalable and repeatable \u2018plug-and-play\u2019 construction management and reporting platform known as the AEC Production Control Room.<\/p>\n<h3>Improve the performance of construction<\/h3>\n<p>Dr Jozef Dobos, founder and CEO of 3D Repo, said: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/construction-projects-covid-19\/75172\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Construction projects<\/a> are infamous for delays, omissions, overruns and often spiralling costs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe AEC Production Control Rooms will allow clients, planners, site managers, and engineers to be able to track real-time project performance and take action based on insights. These stakeholders will, for the first time, be able to objectively compare what was planned versus what has been delivered.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At a physical location within the site office, touch-enabled projectors and multiple immersive displays will present comparable project metrics such as EIR and RFI coordination, health and safety data, evidence-based task management, business intelligence, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/bim-news\/construction-planning-in-4d\/68410\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">4D planning<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Critical project data will be made available to key stakeholders who can make better-informed decisions within the construction process early on.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Gough, director of innovation at Mace, added: \u201cThe AEC Production Control Room aims to improve the performance of construction through increased transparency and project benchmarking.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve taken a digital approach to design, construction, and management to create a solution that is both repeatable and scalable and will deliver a single focal point for any project, with data accessible anytime over the internet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The AEC Production Control Room will deliver a standardised approach to business intelligence and project metrics visualisation.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consortium partners, led by Mace, have won \u00a31.6m of funding to improve productivity, quality, and performance of the UK construction sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38487],"tags":[428,676,856,574,780,273],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-79560","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-construction-technology-news","7":"tag-bim","8":"tag-construction","9":"tag-construction-technology","10":"tag-data-management","11":"tag-collaboration","12":"tag-research-innovation"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Consortium wins \u00a31.6m to make AEC industry more proactive<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Consortium partners, led by Mace, have won \u00a31.6m of funding to improve productivity, quality, and performance of the UK construction sector\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/digital-construction-news\/construction-technology-news\/aec-proactive\/79560\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Consortium wins \u00a31.6m to make AEC industry more proactive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Consortium partners, led by Mace, have won \u00a31.6m of funding to improve productivity, quality, and performance of the UK construction sector\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/digital-construction-news\/construction-technology-news\/aec-proactive\/79560\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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