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Innovation doesn’t respect discipline or sector boundaries.

Instead, the data will help us understand network and system level impacts.We’ll be able to evaluate specifically how an energy project, a transport project, a school and a housing scheme interact.

Digital twins and federated digital twins will enable us to understand how things are actively performing..Whereas, originally, this effort focused on the capital phase of a single construction project, with digital twins we’ll be dealing with the whole life of an asset, and how it relates to, and integrates with,its environment and the other assets around it.That level of data will provide huge knowledge and insight, which in turn will help us to make better decisions supporting our broader set of Design for Value outcomes.

We’ll be able to make decisions about how we want to intervene, and it could end up shaping the policy environment.That’s when we’ll really see the true power and value of data.. A Kit-of-Parts Approach and the Creation of a Digital Marketplace for Construction.

In the utopian future state we seek, buildings will increasingly be configured using Platform construction methodologies and a kit-of-parts approach.

The parts will be interoperable and there will be common interface standards and rules.Both markets have geographical constraints.

Singapore is very land-constrained and has limited ‘internal’ modular manufacturing capacity, but imports have good access to the Malaysian and Indonesian markets.On the other hand, Hong Kong has potential access to Chinese manufacturers.

As such, forms of modular will no doubt be part of the future solution..In the US, there have been several conferences about ‘industrialized construction,’ and players like Katerra and Factory_OS are developing their own vertically integrated offers..