Delivery Platforms for Government Assets

We need to make a strong case for the other value outcomes as well, including productive growth and social value..

What’s more, as we move further into a construction Platforms space, we will increasingly see the data set of a design able to talk directly to the manufacturing marketplace.This means we’ll be able to access instantly both the cost and availability of a project’s components.

For example, Xometry, a company in the United States, is already being used by major manufacturers.Xometry sends the digital file of the required components out to its distributed network of pre-qualified manufacturers all over the USA.They then get a price.

Once the customer is happy with that price, they bring the components together.This allows them to tap into an enormous network of individual specialists, all through one, single website..

The Construction Innovation Hub is an initiative backed by the UK government, with a remit to drive innovation in the construction industry.

The Hub is working to bring manufacturing expertise to construction.In Australia, different states are following different approaches.

In Queensland any government project over 50 million dollars must be fully BIM detailed, with a set of requirements related to output and deliverables.That said, he believes that the contracting market is engaging for compliance, not necessarily to be more efficient.

He talks about Transport for New South Wales, who’ve come up with an amazing, digital engineering framework to set the output requirements they want the industry to meet.Unfortunately, he says, it’s gotten lost in some of the government context of what’s going on there.