Over the last five years, one of the biggest things to have happened has been the rise of BIM as a more standardised approach to specifying and building things. It was within the last five years that the UK BIM mandate came down – 2016, so you’re seeing more and more of these BIM-focussed mandates, and BIM-focussed processes rising up in the building space. It’s an important pre-cursor to actually changing the entire construction market, because without moving to model-based processes, it’s very difficult to fully industrialise construction. Most manufacturing is already dependent on 3D models to actually drive the entire process. 

On automation:

The more we can do with the computer to help people make good decisions, the more time they can spend making the higher-value decisions. Our ultimate goal is to essentially generate the construction model for the user. Right now, they build it because they get such a return from having it, but would they rather be doing something else than building the model? You bet they’d rather be doing something else.

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