Digital Transformation and the search for low carbon buildings and infrastructure

The construction industry has a bad reputation for failing to meet traditional targets of quality, cost and time, and also for lack of innovation in processes, methods and materials. The reality is not quite so bleak, but it is certainly the case that there is little formal research. And yet we are now facing the greatest challenge the industry has ever had to meet, that of climate change. This seminar will start by summarising the changes that have occurred during a single career span, particularly in the development and adoption of digital ways of working. It will consider the need for a consistent and long-term shift to ‘whole life thinking’ being a necessary attribute before real change can be made. It will demonstrate how industry and government need to work closely together to meet the minimum needs of society. And in doing so, it will suggest that only by closely co-ordinated international efforts can the worst effects of climate change be averted.