Building & Facilities

Quality of occupant experience

Designers and engineers iterate design processes for a building design to meet the client's requirements. Designers are tasked with adhering to unprecedented sustainability policies, regulations, and standards, reusing vast amounts of technical knowledge, personalizing designs, and balancing quality with costs.
Generative design systems dramatically improve design efficiency while automatically reusing design knowledge and unlocking creativity.

System engineering for the building lifecycle 

Traditionally, designers and builders work in silos. This approach makes it difficult to deliver value to owners and makes solving complex challenges arduous. A building is a system of systems. It relies on the cohesion of building operations and the configuration of modularized subsystems to function efficiently.
The modularized building opens the way to solving complex issues such as compliance with sustainability regulations and using generative design to improve design flexibility while incorporating construction know-how and planning for the renewal of buildings and facilities.

Connected ecosystems

A building is a tailor-made assembly comprised of standard elements integrated by multiple teams. Connecting all stakeholders is essential for delivering high-quality, sustainable buildings. As long as the construction industry is solely project-based and highly fragmented, both vertically and horizontally, inefficiencies will remain. Designers and engineers who connect to manufacturers and contractors through a cloud environment have the power to transform the construction value chain for the better.

A changing value chain

Balancing delivery and personalized production in highly fragmented markets is inherently complex. Responding to these demands requires transformation across the construction industry.  For example, General Contractors (GCs) will serve as prime integrators of multi-trade modules, specialty contractors will morph into virtual makers and micro-factories will become more prevalent.

Skill scarcity

Specialized skills such as electrical plumbing experts are hard to find. As the availability of skilled workers continues to decline, it is necessary to accumulate and translate these skills into digitized knowledge. With GCs and specialized contractors digitizing knowledge and collaborating in virtual environments, trade-based skills can be designed into modularized systems.

Sustainability compliance
The need for sustainability, resilience and a circular economy has led to a dramatic increase in policies, regulations and new standards.  General and specialized contractors must overcome these new challenges while responding to time pressure, skilled labor decrease, safety management, and profitability improvements.