But the use of cross-sector data hints at even more powerful opportunities in the future, such as:.
The large general contractors and consultants have already adopted digital to quite a significant extent.However, getting construction technology down to the smaller contractors and lower tiers on a construction site remains challenging.
Without their involvement, we aren’t gathering valuable site data, which simply evaporates.Therefore, the logical question becomes, how do we engage those people?.asBuilt believes we need to find a way for those workers to use construction technology onsite without even realising they’re doing it.
In this way, we’ll unlock more technology, more often.Lamont believes that what we really need is something to change the entire world at once, and suggests the use of mobile phones and QR codes to achieve this.
He doesn’t believe more BIM is the answer to the industry’s problems, explaining that a drawing numbering system isn’t going to help the worker installing rebar.
Instead, he says, onsite construction technology solutions should revolve around getting workers who are already using technology like mobile phones, to use that same tech in different ways, aiding and improving onsite construction processes via photographing, scanning, etc.The difference between them is that CCS takes the CO. 2. ,.
and stores it to be sold on to whoever needs it later, whereas CCU reuses the collected CO. 2. almost immediately.There are benefits to both systems, but CCU has less potential for wasted carbon dioxide.
Both methods have been used at commercial scale with ‘undisputable technical and operational success for decades’ in the North Sea, North America, Australia and elsewhere.Naturally, this isn’t a closed loop; feedstock will always need to be provided.