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For example, Dr. Tom Beach at Cardiff University has been funded through one of the projects, with significant scholarly interest in his research on digital compliance checking.

What we’re really aiming for though, is a future state where we’re able to understand and measure and digitise the actual performance of built assets.At that stage, we’ll be able to use the data to create insights beyond one particular project.

Instead, the data will help us understand network and system level impacts.We’ll be able to evaluate specifically how an energy project, a transport project, a school and a housing scheme interact.Digital twins and federated digital twins will enable us to understand how things are actively performing..

Whereas, originally, this effort focused on the capital phase of a single construction project, with digital twins we’ll be dealing with the whole life of an asset, and how it relates to, and integrates with,its environment and the other assets around it.That level of data will provide huge knowledge and insight, which in turn will help us to make better decisions supporting our broader set of Design for Value outcomes.

We’ll be able to make decisions about how we want to intervene, and it could end up shaping the policy environment.

That’s when we’ll really see the true power and value of data.. A Kit-of-Parts Approach and the Creation of a Digital Marketplace for Construction.Combining standardisation with the digital design tools that create better-coordinated models and data-rich designs, along with program cost and supply chain data embedded in the model, is powerful.

Add in the Hub’s work on introducing APQP, and we will get a level of consistency into components, which will deliver a real benefit.We believe having this greater provenance over our components addresses the question of warranties and insurance, and creates a much lower risk profile on a construction project.

What’s more, the idea of pre-prototyping components before we get to site should mean there is very little left to learn.Ultimately, this creates far fewer opportunities for snags and delays.. Reducing risk in construction and attracting investors.