As a result, we’re now starting to see concepts like Advanced Production Quality Planning (APQP) coming into the industry.

His hope is that within the next five years we’ll see a much larger portion of the industry engaging with these processes, as we remove technological hurdles such as network connectivity and engagement.He would like to see more of the sub trades and supply chain making successful requests to use more construction technology.

In ten years, he hopes to see the industry building the same amount in five days that it currently builds in six and a half.We need to use construction technology to enable workers to live more normally, he says, with businesses profiting as a result.The answer isn’t simply to do more jobs, it’s to accomplish more while simultaneously improving quality of life for construction workers.

McKinsey have discussed suicide rates in construction previously, as well as other difficulties the industry is facing.One of the core goals here is to return time back to the worker.. Lamont says much of this work is about humanising the workforce and humanising the workshop through technology.

Of course, the industry’s aging workforce and skills shortage means that we also need to make the industry more attractive for workers in order to overcome other problems we’re facing.

We need to be clever in our approach to getting workers to engage with technology, because many of them are frightened and reticent about its adoption.Transforming Infrastructure Performance.

, from the Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA) in 2017.Off-site manufacture for construction: Building for change.

, a report from the House of Lords Science and Technology Select Committee.The formation of the Construction Innovation Hub in 2018 and its.