The construction industry has entered a critical period of digital transformation. At present, digitalization is changing the construction industry from two dimensions: subverting the current construction method and helping construction companies improve quality and efficiency.
However, the lack of digitalization in the construction industry needs to be strengthened urgently. According to previous statistics from the China Construction Association, my country's construction informatization investment accounted for only 0.08% of the total output value of the construction industry, while developed countries in Europe and the United States accounted for 1%, a difference of more than 12 times. . Although the development trend of my country's digital architecture is performing well, it is still in the early stage of development as a whole, facing severe challenges such as lack of key technologies, insufficient application penetration, imperfect ecological construction, and lack of high-end talents.
What value breakthroughs can digital buildings bring?
Digitalization is accelerating the transformation of the traditional construction industry. The "White Paper on Digital Building Development (2022)" points out that, from the perspective of typical models, digital buildings can achieve full-chain digital collaboration, full-cycle integrated management, and intelligent upgrade of all elements through a series of integrated innovations and collaborative applications of information technology. The three typical models fully empower the industrialized development of new buildings.
Secondly, from the perspective of application scenarios, digital construction applications cover all stages of the construction industry such as collaborative design, intelligent production, intelligent construction site, intelligent operation and maintenance, intelligent review, and green construction, leading the quality and efficiency of construction projects throughout the life cycle.
How to effectively promote the digital transformation of the construction industry?
The "White Paper on Digital Construction Development (2022)" pointed out that in order to promote the digital transformation of the construction industry, efforts should be made in the following aspects:
The first is to make up for technical shortcomings and deepen technology integration.
Accelerate the basic research and innovative practice of the construction industry, promote the integrated application of BIM and other technologies in the entire engineering process; increase the integration and application of the new generation of information technology and digital buildings, and improve the intelligence level of the entire construction process.
The second is to create demonstration projects and deepen integration applications.
Encourage enterprises to develop digital building solutions, establish excellent solution selection, update, and release channels; carry out accurate docking of supply and demand in digital building application scenarios, and build market opportunities for application scenario supply transformation.
The third is to improve the ecological system and create a development environment.
Improve the digital building standard system and testing and verification system, build a digital building public service platform, provide technical consultation, testing certification, talent training and other services for enterprises, and create a good development environment.
The fourth is to innovate the training system and accelerate the introduction of talents.
Explore a talent training system involving industry, university, research and application, and promote comprehensive talent training. Increase the introduction of high-end technology and management talents, and accurately introduce high-level talents at home and abroad in key areas.
At present, it is the initial stage of building digitalization. How to use building digitalization as soon as possible to promote enterprise transformation and design the path of enterprise transformation and upgrading is a major issue in front of us. A lot of practice and investigation are still needed, and the optimization path should be combined with market demand and enterprise status quo.
But we believe that with the development of digital technology, digital architecture will be more and more influenced by science and society, and will become the dominant architectural design. Digital architecture will develop in the direction of virtual reality and overall collaboration. The process of digitization will penetrate into every stage of the construction process. The digital architecture of the future will be an all-round digital architecture.
Future Market, Navigated by Digital First Movers
In 2022, when the national manufacturing industry is implementing intelligent transformation and digital transformation, some enterprises have unique insights and have devoted themselves to the field of digital construction as early as seven or eight years ago. Compared with foreign markets, the production capacity of the domestic construction industry is obviously lagging behind. One of the industries with a significantly low degree of digitalization in China is already facing a huge market crisis. Facing numerous challenges, Lezhu Chairman Zhang Fengfeng relied on more than 20 years of practical experience in project management to open up markets and innovate technologies, and embarked on a road of digital development in the construction industry.
Lezhu has devoted itself to the field of digital construction since 2015, making full use of artificial intelligence, big data, Internet of Things, block chain and Internet comprehensive technologies to carry out platform-based, network-based and digital collaborative management of all elements and processes of the construction industry chain, Solve the core problems of the construction industry chain.
At present, Lezhu is in the forefront of the province's "Smart Reform and Digital Transfer" and has been successively selected as the service provider of Lianyungang's "Smart Reform and Digital Transfer", Yangzhou's "Smart Reform and Digital Transfer" service provider, and Xuzhou's "Smart Reform and Digital Transfer" service provider. More and more construction companies and government projects that are in urgent need of digital transformation provide implementation plans, technical guidance, and comprehensive software and hardware services.
The future construction industry needs more digital pioneers to lead and guide. With the promotion of the policy of "smart reform and digital transformation", a group of high-quality construction industry digital transformation service providers will be derived to jointly improve the ecological development system of the construction industry. Improve the digital application rate of the construction industry and promote the continuous growth of the total output value of the construction industry.