Digitalisation is changing everything - but we need to give people the opportunity to explore its capabilities

Emily Scoones BW 2018

It will make the whole construction industry more efficient – but it will also make it a more interesting sector for new recruits to join. And with that potential for creativity, it will start to attract different kinds of talent

Digitalisation is changing everything. It will make the whole construction industry more efficient – but it will also make it more creative, turning it into a more interesting sector for new recruits to join. And with that potential for creativity, it will start to attract different kinds of talent and new kinds of people: innovators, disruptors, and big-picture thinkers. 

To allow those people to create game-changing ideas, we must free up movement between traditional job roles, and so allow people to explore ideas and innovations not just across the construction industry but also other areas of science and technology.

Being able to invest time in changing processes, understanding that at some point things are going to go wrong, but being allowed to learn from that in an evolving process is so important

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