The Buildings That Could "Fly"​ or Digital Construction

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Photo Credit: xdubai.com

I have not been blogging for quite some time now and LinkedIn seems to be the right platform to get started again after having a 3-year pause on my personal BIM blog at BIMSpot.blogspot.com. 

I would like to discuss the collective mindset that we need to change in order to be able to build better and more efficiently. Nowadays, implementation and utilization of technology in construction grow hourly. However, the way we use to build, or at least the building mindset remains unchanged.

Are we not very serious about the accuracy and consistency of the information that we produce in order to build? Are we reluctant to follow the exact (information) drawings and specifications, etc, when we are on site, in the field to execute the work? What happens as a result; we say something on paper, but we build something else on the ground.

Now, what if the buildings that we build were meant to fly, just like the aeroplanes that carry millions of people every day? Would we still be so reluctant to change the ways we build or the ways we produce buildable, coordinated, verified information to build? Would we still care about changing that HVAC duct position not to clash with the steel structure?
And what is even more ironic, would we make sure that the resulting digital coordination is actually taken seriously by the team members who execute work in the field? Because, if we don't, and we try to fly that building tomorrow, it might leak air, leak chilled water and pose a thread to poeples lives.

In the aircraft and automotive industry, digital prototyping and production,  based on digital prototyping are far ahead of those in the construction industry. Yet it seems that the technology is mature enough nowadays to accommodate digital prototyping and high precision building setting-out in construction. This is just one of the areas where major construction waste is hidden, that results in massive re-work for all the supply chain entities, as well as every individual professional involved. That in turn, creates a toxic and unhealthy environment to work, to engineer and to create. Creativity is diminished by stress...

Let's change. The technology is here. Let's build the buildings of tomorrow that could even fly...

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