{"id":114181,"date":"2020-02-11T11:22:54","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T04:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/construction-firms-reap-benefits-of-digitalisation-despite-challenges\/"},"modified":"2020-02-11T12:11:53","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T05:11:53","slug":"construction-firms-reap-benefits-of-digitalisation-despite-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/construction-firms-reap-benefits-of-digitalisation-despite-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"Construction firms reap benefits of digitalisation despite challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nConstruction companies that embraced digitalisation benefitted from increased resource and time savings.
\nWith the launch of the Construction Industry Transformation Map in 2017, Singapore\u2019s built-environment industry has been experiencing a steady transformation towards digitalisation.
\nIn fact, the industry was \u201cmaking steady progress\u201d in achieving BCA\u2019s 2020 target, said Building and Construction Authority\u2019s (BCA) CEO Hugh Lim at last month\u2019s BCA-REDAS Built Environment and Property Prospects Seminar.
\nThe agency aims to have 40 to 60 Integrated Digital Delivery (IDD) projects as well as 150 to 180 companies with IDD capabilities by 2020.
\nSingapore currently has 35 private and public sector projects piloting IDD. Among these projects are Rochester Commons mixed development by CapitaLand, PSA Corp\u2019s Tuas Port Maintenance Base and the Kim Chuan Depot by the Land Transport Authority, reported CNA.
\nLeveraging on data and digital technologies to connect various parties involved in a project, IDD sees companies using digital technology to integrate the whole construction process. It utilises a collaborative 3D modelling technology known as Building Information Modelling (BIM), smart technologies and advanced infocomm.
\nConstruction companies that embraced digitalisation benefitted from increased resource and time savings.
\nFor instance, BHCC Construction, which has been utilising BIM technology for around seven years, reduced the time spent in the construction stage by 25% by providing all project partners with real-time updates.
\nConcrete and logistics firm Pan-United Corporation Ltd also registered 45% in cost and manpower savings following the roll-out of their own digital platform \u2013 (Artificial Intelligence for Ready-Mix Concrete) AiR \u2013 in 2014, said its CEO May Ng.
\nA centralised operation system for ready-mix concrete companies, AiR helps oversee trucking fleet management, manage ready-mix concrete batching plant production as well as oversee quality control and inventory management.
\n\u201cIt allows us to eliminate the manual work and to upskill our employees, enhancing their career development. The AiR System also promotes transparency and timeliness of information, resulting in more cohesive teamwork among employees and our service providers,\u201d revealed Ng.
\nNanyang Technological University\u2019s School of Civil & Environmental Engineering Associate Professor Robert Tiong, however, noted that there remains a \u201cconsiderable time lag\u201d of digitalisation in actual practice.
\nCiting a 2019 study, Tiong said the results indicate that most construction projects had low IT usage.
\n\u201cIn other words, traditional approaches still dominate information transmission and collection,\u201d he said.
\nConstruction firms attribute this to the challenges faced in implementing digital technologies.
\nBHCC Construction discovered that there were various kinds of software in the market, making it hard for the company to merge software.
\nPan-United, on the other hand, pointed to the difficulty in changing the mindset of industry workers, such as \u201cdrivers of concrete mixer trucks, and tipper truck drivers of raw materials\u201d.
\n\u201cMost of the drivers are more used to walkie-talkies, basic mobile phones and hard copy delivery order, rather than using apps in smartphones and ipads.\u201d
\nOther challenges cited include the lack of collaboration within the industry, lack of expertise and affordability of technology.
\nThe use of different IT systems also posed a challenge for the industry.
\n\u201cSuch standalone systems usually have their specific interfaces and data formats that inevitably leads to information inconsistency, which may bring about inefficient communication and hamper collaboration in any construction project,\u201d said Tiong.
\nWith this, National University of Singapore School of Design and Environment\u2019s Associate Professor Goh Yang Miang called on the industry to \u201cwork together to accumulate useful data or basic IT infrastructure that can bring the industry forward in its digitalisation process\u201d.
\n\u201cThere should be deliberate effort to develop open-source datasets and affordable IT infrastructure for the industry,\u201d he added.
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