With an avalanche of increasingly sophisticated digital tools available, the construction industry remains reluctant to make the most of technology’s potential to improve process efficiencies. Our industry has been found to be the least digitised of all UK sectors, according to a 2016 article by McKinsey & Company. 

We have had “false dawns”; BIM was one. While progress is happening in some parts of the world – in Singapore all new construction projects must complete a BIM representation before work commences on site – progress in the UK remains hampered by industry inertia. BIM in its various levels should be a collaborative data-sharing platform to facilitate more efficient working among all project participants. Instead BIM is being used where it is least disruptive to traditional procurement and delivery, such as logistics, programming and manufacturing activities. 

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