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How Latin America and the Caribbean can unlock their digital potential

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How can Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) learn from other nations and accelerate the digitisation of its built environment and service sector to encourage innovation in [https://www.london.gov.uk/what-we-do/business-and-economy/supporting-londons-sectors/supporting-advanced-urban-services advanced urban services], through digitising new and existing infrastructure and real estate assets?

More than 80% of the population in the LAC region lives in cities – compared to 40% in 1950.

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Percentage urban and location of urban agglomerations with at least 500,000 inhabitants, 2014. Image: UN, World Urbanisation Prospects: The 2014 Revision, Highlights

LAC countries have some of the highest levels of urbanisation globally but one of the lowest levels of digitisation, as well as very low levels of technology adoption rates compared to other markets. The charts below illustrate how the region is already lagging behind global trends.

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There is a positive correlation between digitalisation index as well as technology adoption and urbanisation. However, Latin American countries are underperforming in both dimensions. Image: BBVA

However, according to the [https://publications.iadb.org/bitstream/handle/11319/8166/Accelerating-Digital-Trade-in-Latin-America-and-the-Caribbean.PDF?sequence=1 Inter-American Development Bank] (IDB), the internet has opened new opportunities for LAC economies to become more productive, expand opportunities for entrepreneurship, and drive inclusive economic growth.

A [https://publications.iadb.org/bitstream/handle/11319/8166/Accelerating-Digital-Trade-in-Latin-America-and-the-Caribbean.PDF?sequence=1 recent IDB report] concludes that Latin America’s trade patterns are unlikely to be immune to the ongoing digital revolution, with the internet providing key benefits, including “enabling buyers to find and evaluate sellers anywhere in the world, the internet reduces the geographic distance which for centuries has limited visibility”. IDB identifies four ways in which the internet can be used to shape LAC trade patterns:

1. Expansion of trade in services

Traditionally known as an exporter of manufactured products and commodities, LAC nearly doubled trade in services in 2000-2013. The internet is playing a growing role in the service revolution, fuelling the region’s cross-border trade in services, such as financial, logistics, and educational services. App development platforms enable local startups to create their own global technology companies and to export apps and digital services to customers around the world. Online microwork platforms are expanding opportunities for Latin American freelancers and small businesses to engage in “trade in tasks.”

2. Increased exports and export diversification

The internet is increasing LAC companies’ trade in goods. For example, eBay’s data shows that in Chile, 100% of online sellers export, on average selling to 28 different markets – as opposed to the mere 18% of Chilean offline companies, which typically export to just two markets. These patterns are echoed in other LAC markets. As more LAC companies become able to set up online stores and start selling and buying on e-commerce platforms such as MercadoLibre and Alibaba, the region’s prospects to expand small business trade multiply.

3. Streamlined trade and supply chains

The internet not only enables companies to do more trade, but to optimise their trade – streamline logistics, gain foreign market intelligence, carry out payments and access financing, gain information about trade compliance and overall improve the various aspects that go into doing cross-border trade and transactions. Using the web and various platforms, they can uncover best-in-class suppliers and shop around for the best deal worldwide. This is beneficial: businesses that are able to access a wide variety of goods and services inputs at world prices are widely shown to grow more productive and competitive.

4. Genuinely regional small businesses and start-ups

The internet enables “born-digital” companies to launch in several markets in rapid sequence. The full suite of turnkey internet tools and apps are enabling companies to instantly translate their websites and social media presence, target their services to new markets, understand where consumers are searching for their products, and build a local following for their brand. By leveraging cloud-based tools, entrepreneurs in LAC can instantly build a global footprint, run anything from an e-commerce site to a bank to a genomics company, and handle millions of requests per second without building their own IT infrastructure. As a result, capital expenditure is less and barriers to enter new markets are far lower than they are in the traditional industries – and even traditional industries are increasingly leveraging the internet to manage global communications, engage with supply chain and collaborate across borders.

Turning challenges into opportunities

To enable new digital advanced urban services, increase exports, streamline supply chains and foster digital entrepreneurship in LAC, the required underlying infrastructure and real estate assets need to be digitised as well.

Only an integrated digital twin of the built environment will be able to unlock the full potential of the virtual outcome-based service provision, by linking the end-user with the physical and virtual asset through sensors and actuators. Therefore, how can the digital, construction and urban service sectors be encouraged to work together to enable the necessary transformation that enables LAC citizens of the future to benefit from world class services and opportunities?

To improve our built environment and unlock advanced urban services there are two key questions:

1. How can we build assets better and how can we upgrade the existing assets?

2. How can we ensure we build the right assets for the future?

The first issue is a construction challenge. We need assets that are available on time and on budget and perform in the way we expect. The current sector is fragmented, has failed to invest in skills and machinery, and has allowed itself to be commoditised by the market, while failing to commoditise itself.

Most clients are non-industry experts and can only use price as a yardstick of performance, which has driven a “race to the bottom”, with quality and investment becoming progressively more unaffordable. [https://futureofconstruction.org/practice/shaping-the-future-of-construction-a-breakthrough-in-mindset-and-technology/ The sector must transform] both in the digital and product spaces or disruption will come from the digital and manufacturing sectors. The rate of demand for social and economic infrastructure cannot be sustained by the current model.

The second issue has to do with the sector’s almost impervious ability to learn from its mistakes. We need to analyse the performance of our assets and how citizens consume the services they provide to ensure that we can invest in new assets that enable the outcomes we desire. The built-asset product is often a very complex machine and is normally populated with even more complex humans, but we fail to systematically measure how services and consumers use the assets and how they perform in service. This is an area where the digital sector will take ground. The opportunities and transparency enabled will drive both economic and public behaviours when the poor performance of assets and services are laid bare.

Monetising the digitised built environment requires a better understanding of the relationship between the capital design and the delivery process that creates new infrastructure capacity. Full life-cycle considerations become more transparent using digital models that monitor operational and maintenance costs and ensure the majority of existing assets have positive impact on the social and economic fabric of society.

EY has monetised this for the UK market. As part of the ongoing UK government support of digital transformation, it has supported the provision of a sector deal worth £170 million, announced in the December 2017 budget.

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EY Analysis of UK construction, operations and services markets (2017). Image: EY/ONS, gov.uk, Gazprom, Facilities Management Journal, Arcadis

Since urbanisation plays an important role in explaining demand for digital products and novel advanced urban services, the LAC region could leverage its high urbanisation levels to improve digitisation adoption and as a consequence could improve the delivery of smart and connected assets to enhance the regional economy.

To enable a successful implementation, approaching how social and economic infrastructure and real estate is planned, built, maintained and used needs to be transformed entirely. The digitisation of the built environment could revolutionise how we innovate in service provision and how we build and deliver the underlying infrastructure and real estate assets.

[http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/peter-madden-obe/uk-industrial-strategy_b_15693658.html According to Peter Madden], former CEO of Future Cities Catapult, an international centre of expertise on urban innovation: “The market for these services is huge. With the speed and scale of urbanisation creating exceptional demand in the world for services and integrated solutions in the world’s cities, investment into cities and their infrastructure over the next decade alone is likely to be over $20 trillion.”

Globally, current efforts to apply digital tools, standards and processes in the built environment are highly fragmented. While upstream stakeholders such as architects, engineers and constructors increasingly use Building Information Modelling (BIM) to improve collaboration, downstream players pilot Internet of Things-based/smart-city and data-driven solutions.

However, these initiatives are not yet integrated: data is poorly shared, use cases are limited in scope, and open platforms are missing. A process-driven integrated BIM across assets, sectors and the full life-cycle could unlock significant value and create new Advanced Urban Services. A new global initiative of the World Economic Forum will focus on curating the required multi-stakeholder dialogue; will develop policies and practical insights that through digital technology deliver more capacity out of the existing built environment; and will demonstrate open-platform concepts of the digitised built environment through pilots.

Adopting global learnings to leapfrog in the region

The LAC market has the advantage of being able to observe a number of nations who have been early movers in this space to ensure all relevant learning can be gathered to inform future interventions. The following are recurring themes from around the globe:

1. Transformative change through systemic leadership

A new type of leader is required to move the challenge of poor national and infrastructure sector productivity away from single capex decisions, to the creation of an end-to-end “Advanced Urban Services” (AUS) approach, linking supply-side and demand-side of the market to ultimately address systemic urban problems and global challenges.

The key question is what system (or system-of-systems) and cultural changes would be required to get there? The future demands collective leadership that is visionary, innovative, agile and adaptable. In this context, system theory reframes leadership by focusing on the dynamic interactions between all individuals, explaining how the interactions can, under certain conditions, produce promising outcomes. The profound changes needed to accelerate progress on society’s most pressing problems require distinctive leaders. The recent literature on organisational behaviour calls them [https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/09/reinventing-leadership-the-10-imperative-leadership-aptitudes-you-will-need-as-a-systemic-leader/ systemic leaders] – able to lead organisations, systems, industries, communities and even nations through transformative change.

2. Breaking silos using a multi-stakeholder approach

To bring together policymakers, planners, designers, (software)engineers, architects, data managers, modellers, AUS providers, financiers, investors, maintainers, contractors, trades and suppliers, and manufacturers to understand how waste and value are manifested and dramatically better managed. We need to raise awareness of this required new approach by activating key stakeholders that can disrupt silos and change the conservative culture of the infrastructure and built environment-related industries.

The [http://constructingexcellence.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/CECASESTUDY_PALACE_web.pdf PalaceXchange] scheme used technology to enable collaborative working across silos. It involved the erection of a civic building comprising three-storey civic/library accommodation. This was connected by a new footbridge to a 530-space multi-storey carpark below including three leisure use compartments. It provided 14,000m² of new retail space in 22 shop units and 6,038m² of leisure and cultural venues and a link between the town’s top high street retailers.

The contractor Costain wished to improve their processes to deliver a high quality end product with less waste in the design process. The clients, ING Real Estate, were keen to make good use of technologies and techniques to encourage information exchange and collaboration, make the construction process more efficient and reduce the operational costs. The client and contractor felt that a BIM could help to improve spatial coordination and produce better quality information with a reduction in Requests for Information (RFI). The findings from impact analyses, has been sufficient for Costain and Reid Architecture to express commitment to the implementation of the BIM approach on this and other projects. They felt that the major benefit of improved spatial coordination was the delivery of the project 10% under budget. Some members of the team have adopted the principles and have used BIM in subsequent projects.

The important point here is the link between digital technology and an integrated lifecycle approach. The two are symbiotic, reinforcing one another. By taking a whole lifecycle perspective across design, build and operations, it becomes possible to design assets that are faster, cheaper and safer to construct and more fit for purpose when in operation. Digital technology enables this. For example, design reviews using virtual reality allow are parties to review how an asset will really look and feel, and improve the design accordingly. And, going forward, the power of machines can be harnessed to run multiple iterations to identify designs that optimize on any required output, such as cost to operate, or speed to construct.

3. Applying human/social-centric design and infrastructure as a service

To focus on positive impact on the citizen, the future customer’s and society’s needs and interests such as wellbeing, longevity, increased utility, purpose, etc. to design excellence into the AUS delivery. A human and social-centric, aka an empathic design approach has to be adopted to better define the requirements of supporting smart, adaptive and flexible infrastructure and built environment asset programs. New design thinking-based processes have to be adopted to generate promising ideas, assess value generation potential of assets and develop and verify sound business models for assets underlying the AUS. The potential is substantial considering that we might not even imagine 90% of future AUS.

4. Transforming the industry sector into a smart business

To apply key success factors for innovation in the infrastructure and built environment ecosystem, AUS innovation has to be analysed on three dimensions during the strategic multi-stakeholder dialogue:

⦁ Stimulating innovation by focussing on vision, culture and talent;

⦁ Turning ideas into reality by designing product platforms, proof of concepts, pilots and prototypes as well as strategic partnerships; and

⦁ Succeeding in the market by accelerating business model innovation, introducing alternative contracting models as well as proactively shaping regulation.

5. Transforming the public sector into a smart government

There are three agile and flexible roles for governments to foster the adoption of innovation in the infrastructure and built environment ecosystem:

⦁ Becoming a smart regulator by harmonising and reforming regulation, codes and public procurement towards fast, agile, flexible and performance-based frameworks

⦁ Becoming a long-term strategic planner and incubator by introducing an innovation agenda, increasing R&D funding in the built environment sectors as well as the necessary, seed financing to unlock innovation opportunities

⦁ Becoming a forward-looking project owner that embraces an innovation friendly culture, a lifecycle perspective, alternative procurement models as well as data analytics.

The UK government, through its [https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/61152/Government-Construction-Strategy_0.pdf construction strategy 2011-16] and subsequent follow up schemes, pioneered the large-scale transformation of an industry. The government strategy set clear targets for cost, carbon, programme and export improvements. It used procurement strategy to implement the strategy, with clear client “Employers Information Requirements” to provide clear specifications to industry as to the data to be delivered with their assets. The programme was supported with a number of supporting interventions such as “Soft Landings” (a user and operator engagement and support programme), Project Bank Accounts (a mechanism to ensure SME businesses receive fair and on time payments) and alternative procurement approaches. Project savings in FY14/15 ranged between 8%-12% of capex across the public sector.

6. Fostering public-private cooperation

To identify concrete projects, prototypes, pilot studies for application. A state-of-the art example in combining public private cooperation and using digital twin is the [https://futureofconstruction.org/case/new-karolinska-hospital/ The Karolinska Hospital] and Institute in Stockholm, a globally renowned healthcare institution.

In 2010, construction for the New Karolinska Solna (NKS) Hospital started. With an overall investment of $3 billion and a contract to extend until 2040, it is considered to be the world’s largest hospital public-private partnership. When completed, the hospital will have over 12,000 rooms, 35 operating theatres and 17 magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) units.

Aiming to set new standards in patient care, integration of healthcare and research, adaptability to future needs and sustainability, the NKS project involves many innovations in the construction process and in operations and maintenance (O&M).

The key innovation is the development and use of an advanced Building Information Model (BIM) that will be used across the entire lifecycle. Once completed the model’s object list will have about one million items and can be accessed from anywhere by construction workers, project managers or contractors. Without “Digital snagging”, i.e., identifying potential issues and communicating them via a virtual punch list before handover, the smooth handover of the building would simply not have been possible.

But, the best is yet to come – the maximum potential of the BIM model will be realized during O&M, making that phase as efficient as possible thanks to predictive maintenance, quicker repairs and optimised facility management. This includes 29 automated guided vehicles that will autonomously conduct logistics within the hospital and between the different buildings, and which use the BIM model as an address book. What’s more, the hospital construction sets new standards in terms of sustainability (climate neutral, LEED Gold) and also took advantage of pre-fabrication of entire rooms to facilitate logistics and speed up construction. The 29 automated guided vehicles will autonomously carry out about 1,600 transports per day.

Call for action

The impact of digitisation has been slow to reach the built environment ecosystem, but through the early moves of some significant players there is now an awareness of the potential and a disruptive effect is being felt. However, for the LAC nations to capitalise on the opportunity in a timely manner they need to incentivise the market through a number of interventions to generate opportunities for new business to provide society with sustainable, affordable assets that fulfil human needs.

CEOs of leading sectoral companies at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2018 prioritised three transformation imperatives: attracting [https://futureofconstruction.org/blog/new-report-available-shaping-the-future-of-construction-an-action-plan-to-solve-the-industrys-talent-gap/ new talent and improving skills] to unlock a dormant digital market, integrating and collaborating across the built environment value chain, and [http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Accelerating_BIM_Adoption_Action_Plan.pdf adopting advanced technology] on a large scale.

Furthermore, operators and service providers should start collecting data regarding the performance and usage of assets to provide structured feedback to customers and future interventions. Where possible, this data should be made available as Open Data to encourage the digital market innovators to develop new solutions.

In addition, the manufacturing sector should be encouraged to enter the market at scale to increase choice and quality, while decreasing price. The public sector should follow procurement models that promote on time and on budget delivery of assets. At the same time, the consideration to the private sector should be linked in performance to a set of preferred outputs. This is expected to promote innovation and efficiencies throughout the life cycle of the assets. The construction sector should be incentivised to “deliver assets properly” to time, quality and budget and increasingly at scale. The components they use should become intelligent and smart.

* Written by

Mark Bew, Chairman Professional Construction Strategies, Strategic Advisor to Digital Built Britain, United Kingdom | Mike Burke, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, AECOM, USA and Co-Chair of the Steering Committee, Infrastructure and Urban Development Industries, World Economic Forum | Michael Buehler, Head of Infrastructure and Urban Development, World Economic Forum, Geneva, Switzerland

Please find the original article [https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/03/how-latin-america-and-the-caribbean-can-unlock-its-digital-potential/ here].

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How can Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) learn from other nations and accelerate the digitisation of its built environment and service sector to encourage innovation in [https://www.london.gov.uk/what-we-do/business-and-economy/supporting-londons-sectors/supporting-advanced-urban-services advanced urban services], through digitising new and existing infrastructure and real estate assets?

More than 80% of the population in the LAC region lives in cities – compared to 40% in 1950.

[[File:xB37cPyD6c5vLR66BL6YqFft_mKoWHfV6F0kj2uF9FE.jpg|link=https://esa.un.org/unpd/wup/publications/files/wup2014-highlights.pdf]] Percentage urban and location of urban agglomerations with at least 500,000 inhabitants, 2014. Image: UN, World Urbanisation Prospects: The 2014 Revision, Highlights

LAC countries have some of the highest levels of urbanisation globally but one of the lowest levels of digitisation, as well as very low levels of technology adoption rates compared to other markets. The charts below illustrate how the region is already lagging behind global trends.

[[File:aDbLR5PejAqGB81Cl6v_XMSWrF2bN5NH5POKDpYrcTA.png|link=https://www.bbvaresearch.com/en/publicaciones/digix-the-digitization-index/]] There is a positive correlation between digitalisation index as well as technology adoption and urbanisation. However, Latin American countries are underperforming in both dimensions. Image: BBVA

However, according to the [https://publications.iadb.org/bitstream/handle/11319/8166/Accelerating-Digital-Trade-in-Latin-America-and-the-Caribbean.PDF?sequence=1 Inter-American Development Bank] (IDB), the internet has opened new opportunities for LAC economies to become more productive, expand opportunities for entrepreneurship, and drive inclusive economic growth.

A [https://publications.iadb.org/bitstream/handle/11319/8166/Accelerating-Digital-Trade-in-Latin-America-and-the-Caribbean.PDF?sequence=1 recent IDB report] concludes that Latin America’s trade patterns are unlikely to be immune to the ongoing digital revolution, with the internet providing key benefits, including “enabling buyers to find and evaluate sellers anywhere in the world, the internet reduces the geographic distance which for centuries has limited visibility”. IDB identifies four ways in which the internet can be used to shape LAC trade patterns:

1. Expansion of trade in services

Traditionally known as an exporter of manufactured products and commodities, LAC nearly doubled trade in services in 2000-2013. The internet is playing a growing role in the service revolution, fuelling the region’s cross-border trade in services, such as financial, logistics, and educational services. App development platforms enable local startups to create their own global technology companies and to export apps and digital services to customers around the world. Online microwork platforms are expanding opportunities for Latin American freelancers and small businesses to engage in “trade in tasks.”

2. Increased exports and export diversification

The internet is increasing LAC companies’ trade in goods. For example, eBay’s data shows that in Chile, 100% of online sellers export, on average selling to 28 different markets – as opposed to the mere 18% of Chilean offline companies, which typically export to just two markets. These patterns are echoed in other LAC markets. As more LAC companies become able to set up online stores and start selling and buying on e-commerce platforms such as MercadoLibre and Alibaba, the region’s prospects to expand small business trade multiply.

3. Streamlined trade and supply chains

The internet not only enables companies to do more trade, but to optimise their trade – streamline logistics, gain foreign market intelligence, carry out payments and access financing, gain information about trade compliance and overall improve the various aspects that go into doing cross-border trade and transactions. Using the web and various platforms, they can uncover best-in-class suppliers and shop around for the best deal worldwide. This is beneficial: businesses that are able to access a wide variety of goods and services inputs at world prices are widely shown to grow more productive and competitive.

4. Genuinely regional small businesses and start-ups

The internet enables “born-digital” companies to launch in several markets in rapid sequence. The full suite of turnkey internet tools and apps are enabling companies to instantly translate their websites and social media presence, target their services to new markets, understand where consumers are searching for their products, and build a local following for their brand. By leveraging cloud-based tools, entrepreneurs in LAC can instantly build a global footprint, run anything from an e-commerce site to a bank to a genomics company, and handle millions of requests per second without building their own IT infrastructure. As a result, capital expenditure is less and barriers to enter new markets are far lower than they are in the traditional industries – and even traditional industries are increasingly leveraging the internet to manage global communications, engage with supply chain and collaborate across borders.

Turning challenges into opportunities

To enable new digital advanced urban services, increase exports, streamline supply chains and foster digital entrepreneurship in LAC, the required underlying infrastructure and real estate assets need to be digitised as well.

Only an integrated digital twin of the built environment will be able to unlock the full potential of the virtual outcome-based service provision, by linking the end-user with the physical and virtual asset through sensors and actuators. Therefore, how can the digital, construction and urban service sectors be encouraged to work together to enable the necessary transformation that enables LAC citizens of the future to benefit from world class services and opportunities?

To improve our built environment and unlock advanced urban services there are two key questions:

1. How can we build assets better and how can we upgrade the existing assets?

2. How can we ensure we build the right assets for the future?

The first issue is a construction challenge. We need assets that are available on time and on budget and perform in the way we expect. The current sector is fragmented, has failed to invest in skills and machinery, and has allowed itself to be commoditised by the market, while failing to commoditise itself.

Most clients are non-industry experts and can only use price as a yardstick of performance, which has driven a “race to the bottom”, with quality and investment becoming progressively more unaffordable. [https://futureofconstruction.org/practice/shaping-the-future-of-construction-a-breakthrough-in-mindset-and-technology/ The sector must transform] both in the digital and product spaces or disruption will come from the digital and manufacturing sectors. The rate of demand for social and economic infrastructure cannot be sustained by the current model.

The second issue has to do with the sector’s almost impervious ability to learn from its mistakes. We need to analyse the performance of our assets and how citizens consume the services they provide to ensure that we can invest in new assets that enable the outcomes we desire. The built-asset product is often a very complex machine and is normally populated with even more complex humans, but we fail to systematically measure how services and consumers use the assets and how they perform in service. This is an area where the digital sector will take ground. The opportunities and transparency enabled will drive both economic and public behaviours when the poor performance of assets and services are laid bare.

Monetising the digitised built environment requires a better understanding of the relationship between the capital design and the delivery process that creates new infrastructure capacity. Full life-cycle considerations become more transparent using digital models that monitor operational and maintenance costs and ensure the majority of existing assets have positive impact on the social and economic fabric of society.

EY has monetised this for the UK market. As part of the ongoing UK government support of digital transformation, it has supported the provision of a sector deal worth £170 million, announced in the December 2017 budget.

[[File:Qnv3ilFpWoJzGtvpkuH9n8jS2GdEteFdViyT5L7Rnn8.png]] EY Analysis of UK construction, operations and services markets (2017). Image: EY/ONS, gov.uk, Gazprom, Facilities Management Journal, Arcadis

Since urbanisation plays an important role in explaining demand for digital products and novel advanced urban services, the LAC region could leverage its high urbanisation levels to improve digitisation adoption and as a consequence could improve the delivery of smart and connected assets to enhance the regional economy.

To enable a successful implementation, approaching how social and economic infrastructure and real estate is planned, built, maintained and used needs to be transformed entirely. The digitisation of the built environment could revolutionise how we innovate in service provision and how we build and deliver the underlying infrastructure and real estate assets.

[http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/peter-madden-obe/uk-industrial-strategy_b_15693658.html According to Peter Madden], former CEO of Future Cities Catapult, an international centre of expertise on urban innovation: “The market for these services is huge. With the speed and scale of urbanisation creating exceptional demand in the world for services and integrated solutions in the world’s cities, investment into cities and their infrastructure over the next decade alone is likely to be over $20 trillion.”

Globally, current efforts to apply digital tools, standards and processes in the built environment are highly fragmented. While upstream stakeholders such as architects, engineers and constructors increasingly use Building Information Modelling (BIM) to improve collaboration, downstream players pilot Internet of Things-based/smart-city and data-driven solutions.

However, these initiatives are not yet integrated: data is poorly shared, use cases are limited in scope, and open platforms are missing. A process-driven integrated BIM across assets, sectors and the full life-cycle could unlock significant value and create new Advanced Urban Services. A new global initiative of the World Economic Forum will focus on curating the required multi-stakeholder dialogue; will develop policies and practical insights that through digital technology deliver more capacity out of the existing built environment; and will demonstrate open-platform concepts of the digitised built environment through pilots.

Adopting global learnings to leapfrog in the region

The LAC market has the advantage of being able to observe a number of nations who have been early movers in this space to ensure all relevant learning can be gathered to inform future interventions. The following are recurring themes from around the globe:

1. Transformative change through systemic leadership

A new type of leader is required to move the challenge of poor national and infrastructure sector productivity away from single capex decisions, to the creation of an end-to-end “Advanced Urban Services” (AUS) approach, linking supply-side and demand-side of the market to ultimately address systemic urban problems and global challenges.

The key question is what system (or system-of-systems) and cultural changes would be required to get there? The future demands collective leadership that is visionary, innovative, agile and adaptable. In this context, system theory reframes leadership by focusing on the dynamic interactions between all individuals, explaining how the interactions can, under certain conditions, produce promising outcomes. The profound changes needed to accelerate progress on society’s most pressing problems require distinctive leaders. The recent literature on organisational behaviour calls them [https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/09/reinventing-leadership-the-10-imperative-leadership-aptitudes-you-will-need-as-a-systemic-leader/ systemic leaders] – able to lead organisations, systems, industries, communities and even nations through transformative change.

2. Breaking silos using a multi-stakeholder approach

To bring together policymakers, planners, designers, (software)engineers, architects, data managers, modellers, AUS providers, financiers, investors, maintainers, contractors, trades and suppliers, and manufacturers to understand how waste and value are manifested and dramatically better managed. We need to raise awareness of this required new approach by activating key stakeholders that can disrupt silos and change the conservative culture of the infrastructure and built environment-related industries.

The [http://constructingexcellence.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/CECASESTUDY_PALACE_web.pdf PalaceXchange] scheme used technology to enable collaborative working across silos. It involved the erection of a civic building comprising three-storey civic/library accommodation. This was connected by a new footbridge to a 530-space multi-storey carpark below including three leisure use compartments. It provided 14,000m² of new retail space in 22 shop units and 6,038m² of leisure and cultural venues and a link between the town’s top high street retailers.

The contractor Costain wished to improve their processes to deliver a high quality end product with less waste in the design process. The clients, ING Real Estate, were keen to make good use of technologies and techniques to encourage information exchange and collaboration, make the construction process more efficient and reduce the operational costs. The client and contractor felt that a BIM could help to improve spatial coordination and produce better quality information with a reduction in Requests for Information (RFI). The findings from impact analyses, has been sufficient for Costain and Reid Architecture to express commitment to the implementation of the BIM approach on this and other projects. They felt that the major benefit of improved spatial coordination was the delivery of the project 10% under budget. Some members of the team have adopted the principles and have used BIM in subsequent projects.

The important point here is the link between digital technology and an integrated lifecycle approach. The two are symbiotic, reinforcing one another. By taking a whole lifecycle perspective across design, build and operations, it becomes possible to design assets that are faster, cheaper and safer to construct and more fit for purpose when in operation. Digital technology enables this. For example, design reviews using virtual reality allow are parties to review how an asset will really look and feel, and improve the design accordingly. And, going forward, the power of machines can be harnessed to run multiple iterations to identify designs that optimize on any required output, such as cost to operate, or speed to construct.

3. Applying human/social-centric design and infrastructure as a service

To focus on positive impact on the citizen, the future customer’s and society’s needs and interests such as wellbeing, longevity, increased utility, purpose, etc. to design excellence into the AUS delivery. A human and social-centric, aka an empathic design approach has to be adopted to better define the requirements of supporting smart, adaptive and flexible infrastructure and built environment asset programs. New design thinking-based processes have to be adopted to generate promising ideas, assess value generation potential of assets and develop and verify sound business models for assets underlying the AUS. The potential is substantial considering that we might not even imagine 90% of future AUS.

4. Transforming the industry sector into a smart business

To apply key success factors for innovation in the infrastructure and built environment ecosystem, AUS innovation has to be analysed on three dimensions during the strategic multi-stakeholder dialogue:

⦁ Stimulating innovation by focussing on vision, culture and talent;

⦁ Turning ideas into reality by designing product platforms, proof of concepts, pilots and prototypes as well as strategic partnerships; and

⦁ Succeeding in the market by accelerating business model innovation, introducing alternative contracting models as well as proactively shaping regulation.

5. Transforming the public sector into a smart government

There are three agile and flexible roles for governments to foster the adoption of innovation in the infrastructure and built environment ecosystem:

⦁ Becoming a smart regulator by harmonising and reforming regulation, codes and public procurement towards fast, agile, flexible and performance-based frameworks

⦁ Becoming a long-term strategic planner and incubator by introducing an innovation agenda, increasing R&D funding in the built environment sectors as well as the necessary, seed financing to unlock innovation opportunities

⦁ Becoming a forward-looking project owner that embraces an innovation friendly culture, a lifecycle perspective, alternative procurement models as well as data analytics.

The UK government, through its [https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/61152/Government-Construction-Strategy_0.pdf construction strategy 2011-16] and subsequent follow up schemes, pioneered the large-scale transformation of an industry. The government strategy set clear targets for cost, carbon, programme and export improvements. It used procurement strategy to implement the strategy, with clear client “Employers Information Requirements” to provide clear specifications to industry as to the data to be delivered with their assets. The programme was supported with a number of supporting interventions such as “Soft Landings” (a user and operator engagement and support programme), Project Bank Accounts (a mechanism to ensure SME businesses receive fair and on time payments) and alternative procurement approaches. Project savings in FY14/15 ranged between 8%-12% of capex across the public sector.

6. Fostering public-private cooperation

To identify concrete projects, prototypes, pilot studies for application. A state-of-the art example in combining public private cooperation and using digital twin is the [https://futureofconstruction.org/case/new-karolinska-hospital/ The Karolinska Hospital] and Institute in Stockholm, a globally renowned healthcare institution.

In 2010, construction for the New Karolinska Solna (NKS) Hospital started. With an overall investment of $3 billion and a contract to extend until 2040, it is considered to be the world’s largest hospital public-private partnership. When completed, the hospital will have over 12,000 rooms, 35 operating theatres and 17 magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) units.

Aiming to set new standards in patient care, integration of healthcare and research, adaptability to future needs and sustainability, the NKS project involves many innovations in the construction process and in operations and maintenance (O&M).

The key innovation is the development and use of an advanced Building Information Model (BIM) that will be used across the entire lifecycle. Once completed the model’s object list will have about one million items and can be accessed from anywhere by construction workers, project managers or contractors. Without “Digital snagging”, i.e., identifying potential issues and communicating them via a virtual punch list before handover, the smooth handover of the building would simply not have been possible.

But, the best is yet to come – the maximum potential of the BIM model will be realized during O&M, making that phase as efficient as possible thanks to predictive maintenance, quicker repairs and optimised facility management. This includes 29 automated guided vehicles that will autonomously conduct logistics within the hospital and between the different buildings, and which use the BIM model as an address book. What’s more, the hospital construction sets new standards in terms of sustainability (climate neutral, LEED Gold) and also took advantage of pre-fabrication of entire rooms to facilitate logistics and speed up construction. The 29 automated guided vehicles will autonomously carry out about 1,600 transports per day.

Call for action

The impact of digitisation has been slow to reach the built environment ecosystem, but through the early moves of some significant players there is now an awareness of the potential and a disruptive effect is being felt. However, for the LAC nations to capitalise on the opportunity in a timely manner they need to incentivise the market through a number of interventions to generate opportunities for new business to provide society with sustainable, affordable assets that fulfil human needs.

CEOs of leading sectoral companies at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2018 prioritised three transformation imperatives: attracting [https://futureofconstruction.org/blog/new-report-available-shaping-the-future-of-construction-an-action-plan-to-solve-the-industrys-talent-gap/ new talent and improving skills] to unlock a dormant digital market, integrating and collaborating across the built environment value chain, and [http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Accelerating_BIM_Adoption_Action_Plan.pdf adopting advanced technology] on a large scale.

Furthermore, operators and service providers should start collecting data regarding the performance and usage of assets to provide structured feedback to customers and future interventions. Where possible, this data should be made available as Open Data to encourage the digital market innovators to develop new solutions.

In addition, the manufacturing sector should be encouraged to enter the market at scale to increase choice and quality, while decreasing price. The public sector should follow procurement models that promote on time and on budget delivery of assets. At the same time, the consideration to the private sector should be linked in performance to a set of preferred outputs. This is expected to promote innovation and efficiencies throughout the life cycle of the assets. The construction sector should be incentivised to “deliver assets properly” to time, quality and budget and increasingly at scale. The components they use should become intelligent and smart.

* Written by 
Mark Bew, Chairman Professional Construction Strategies, Strategic Advisor to Digital Built Britain, United Kingdom | Mike Burke, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, AECOM, USA and Co-Chair of the Steering Committee, Infrastructure and Urban Development Industries, World Economic Forum | Michael Buehler, Head of Infrastructure and Urban Development, World Economic Forum, Geneva, Switzerland

Please find the original article [https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/03/how-latin-america-and-the-caribbean-can-unlock-its-digital-potential/ here].

--[[User:Future of Construction|Future of Construction]] 13:52, 15 Mar 2018 (BST)

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2018-03-15T13:49:27Z

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An action plan to accelerate BIM adoption

2018-03-06T12:32:37Z

Future of Construction:

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BIM is the centerpiece of the construction industry’s digital transformation, however BIM adoption is still too slow

Download the full report [http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Accelerating_BIM_Adoption_Action_Plan.pdf here]

--[[User:Future_of_Construction|Future of Construction]] 12:31, 06 Mar 2018 (BST)

In the last decades the construction industry has failed to keep up with productivity gains made in other industries, hampering national economies’ wider growth, societies’ well-being and the solution of environmental issues. Emerging digital technologies, like 3D-printing, autonomous construction equipment or pre-fabrication, have the potential to close the productivity gap. To work, most of these technologies need accurate, consistent data from different project stakeholders. As centrepiece of the digital transformation, BIM systems can provide this data. However, with about 33% of companies in the industry not using BIM, the adoption is still quite low.

The report, Shaping the Future of Construction: An Action Plan to Accelerate Building Information Modeling (BIM) Adoption, provides nine key actions which need to be implemented to accelerate BIM adoption. The report, developed in collaboration with The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), is the outcome of a roundtable with more than 30 high-profile representatives from leading global design, engineering and construction firms, industry associations, governments and academia. The report outlines nine key actions and breaks them down into 27 concrete measures on company-, industry- and government-level.

* Submitted by: 
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An action plan to accelerate BIM adoption

2018-03-06T12:31:55Z

Future of Construction:

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BIM is the centerpiece of the construction industry’s digital transformation, however BIM adoption is still too slow

Download the full report [http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Accelerating_BIM_Adoption_Action_Plan.pdf here]

--[[User:Future of Construction|Future of Construction]] 12:31, 06 Mar 2018 (BST)

In the last decades the construction industry has failed to keep up with productivity gains made in other industries, hampering national economies’ wider growth, societies’ well-being and the solution of environmental issues. Emerging digital technologies, like 3D-printing, autonomous construction equipment or pre-fabrication, have the potential to close the productivity gap. To work, most of these technologies need accurate, consistent data from different project stakeholders. As centrepiece of the digital transformation, BIM systems can provide this data. However, with about 33% of companies in the industry not using BIM, the adoption is still quite low.

The report, Shaping the Future of Construction: An Action Plan to Accelerate Building Information Modeling (BIM) Adoption, provides nine key actions which need to be implemented to accelerate BIM adoption. The report, developed in collaboration with The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), is the outcome of a roundtable with more than 30 high-profile representatives from leading global design, engineering and construction firms, industry associations, governments and academia. The report outlines nine key actions and breaks them down into 27 concrete measures on company-, industry- and government-level.

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BIM is the centerpiece of the construction industry’s digital transformation, however BIM adoption is still too slow

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In the last decades the construction industry has failed to keep up with productivity gains made in other industries, hampering national economies’ wider growth, societies’ well-being and the solution of environmental issues. Emerging digital technologies, like 3D-printing, autonomous construction equipment or pre-fabrication, have the potential to close the productivity gap. To work, most of these technologies need accurate, consistent data from different project stakeholders. As centrepiece of the digital transformation, BIM systems can provide this data. However, with about 33% of companies in the industry not using BIM, the adoption is still quite low.

The report, Shaping the Future of Construction: An Action Plan to Accelerate Building Information Modeling (BIM) Adoption, provides nine key actions which need to be implemented to accelerate BIM adoption. The report, developed in collaboration with The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), is the outcome of a roundtable with more than 30 high-profile representatives from leading global design, engineering and construction firms, industry associations, governments and academia. The report outlines nine key actions and breaks them down into 27 concrete measures on company-, industry- and government-level.

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2018-03-06T12:29:50Z

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Shaping the future of construction: An action plan to solve the industry’s talent gap

2018-02-23T08:31:18Z

Future of Construction:

[[File:FOC1.jpg|link=File:FOC1.jpg]]

The construction industry needs to take action to close its talent gap - a major hurdle to its digital transformation.

Recently, transformative technological developments such as 3D-printed houses, automated construction equipment and pre-fabricated skyscrapers have emerged. The digital transformation of the construction industry has the potential to uplift decade-long stagnating productivity, which is crucial for society’s wellbeing, economic prosperity and for the environment.

However, the industry needs new talent to adopt the new technologies. A report published in February 2018, 'Shaping the Future of Construction: An Action Plan to solve the Industry’s Talent Gap', provides twelve key actions which need to be implemented to close the structural talent gap in the construction industry.

The report, developed in collaboration with The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), is the outcome of a roundtable with more than 30 high-profile representatives from leading global design, engineering and construction firms, industry associations, governments and academia. It outlines actions and successful implementation examples at company, industry and government-level.

Download the full report [https://futureofconstruction.org/practice/shaping-the-future-of-construction-an-action-plan-to-solve-the-industrys-talent-gap/ here].

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This article was written by:

* Santiago Castagnino, Partner & Managing Director, The Boston Consulting Group
* Pablo Claver Gil, Partner & Managing Director, The Boston Consulting Group
* Christoph Rothballer, Principal, The Boston Consulting Group
* Till Zupancic, Project Manager Future of Construction, World Economic Forum
* Michael Max Buehler, Head of Infrastructure and Urban Development Industries, World Economic Forum

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--[[User:Future_of_Construction|Future of Construction]] 16:00, 22 Feb 2018 (BST)

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Shaping the future of construction: An action plan to solve the industry’s talent gap

2018-02-23T08:29:41Z

Future of Construction:

[[File:FOC1.jpg|link=File:FOC1.jpg]]

The construction industry needs to take action to close its talent gap - a major hurdle to its digital transformation.

Recently, transformative technological developments such as 3D-printed houses, automated construction equipment and pre-fabricated skyscrapers have emerged. The digital transformation of the construction industry has the potential to uplift decade-long stagnating productivity, which is crucial for society’s wellbeing, economic prosperity and for the environment.

However, the industry needs new talent to adopt the new technologies. A report published in February 2018, 'Shaping the Future of Construction: An Action Plan to solve the Industry’s Talent Gap', provides twelve key actions which need to be implemented to close the structural talent gap in the construction industry.

The report, developed in collaboration with The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), is the outcome of a roundtable with more than 30 high-profile representatives from leading global design, engineering and construction firms, industry associations, governments and academia. It outlines actions and successful implementation examples at company, industry and government-level.

Download the full report [https://futureofconstruction.org/practice/shaping-the-future-of-construction-an-action-plan-to-solve-the-industrys-talent-gap/ here].

-----
This article was written by:

* Santiago Castagnino, Partner & Managing Director, The Boston Consulting Group
* Pablo Claver Gil, Partner & Managing Director, The Boston Consulting Group
* Christoph Rothballer, Principal, The Boston Consulting Group
* Till Zupancic, Project Manager Future of Construction, World Economic Forum
* Michael Max Buehler, Head of Infrastructure and Urban Development Industries, World Economic Forum

Please find the original article [https://futureofconstruction.org/practice/shaping-the-future-of-construction-an-action-plan-to-solve-the-industrys-talent-gap/_ here]

--[[User:Future_of_Construction|Future of Construction]] 16:00, 22 Feb 2018 (BST)

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* Tackling the construction skills shortage.
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Shaping the future of construction: An action plan to solve the industry’s talent gap

2018-02-23T08:28:06Z

Future of Construction:

[[File:FOC1.jpg|link=File:FOC1.jpg]]

The construction industry needs to take action to close its talent gap - a major hurdle to its digital transformation.

Recently, transformative technological developments such as 3D-printed houses, automated construction equipment and pre-fabricated skyscrapers have emerged. The digital transformation of the construction industry has the potential to uplift decade-long stagnating productivity, which is crucial for society’s wellbeing, economic prosperity and for the environment.

However, the industry needs new talent to adopt the new technologies. A report published in February 2018, 'Shaping the Future of Construction: An Action Plan to solve the Industry’s Talent Gap', provides twelve key actions which need to be implemented to close the structural talent gap in the construction industry.

The report, developed in collaboration with The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), is the outcome of a roundtable with more than 30 high-profile representatives from leading global design, engineering and construction firms, industry associations, governments and academia. It outlines actions and successful implementation examples at company, industry and government-level.

Download the full report [https://futureofconstruction.org/practice/shaping-the-future-of-construction-an-action-plan-to-solve-the-industrys-talent-gap/_ here].

-----
This article was written by:

* Santiago Castagnino, Partner & Managing Director, The Boston Consulting Group
* Pablo Claver Gil, Partner & Managing Director, The Boston Consulting Group
* Christoph Rothballer, Principal, The Boston Consulting Group
* Till Zupancic, Project Manager Future of Construction, World Economic Forum
* Michael Max Buehler, Head of Infrastructure and Urban Development Industries, World Economic Forum

Please find the original article [https://futureofconstruction.org/practice/shaping-the-future-of-construction-an-action-plan-to-solve-the-industrys-talent-gap/_ here]

--[[User:Future_of_Construction|Future of Construction]] 16:00, 22 Feb 2018 (BST)

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* Skills shortage.
* Tackling the construction skills shortage.
* To attract the right talent, offering flexibility and work-life balance will be essential.

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Shaping the future of construction: An action plan to solve the industry’s talent gap

2018-02-23T08:26:39Z

Future of Construction:

[[File:FOC1.jpg|link=File:FOC1.jpg]]

The construction industry needs to take action to close its talent gap - a major hurdle to its digital transformation.

Recently, transformative technological developments such as 3D-printed houses, automated construction equipment and pre-fabricated skyscrapers have emerged. The digital transformation of the construction industry has the potential to uplift decade-long stagnating productivity, which is crucial for society’s wellbeing, economic prosperity and for the environment.

However, the industry needs new talent to adopt the new technologies. A report published in February 2018, 'Shaping the Future of Construction: An Action Plan to solve the Industry’s Talent Gap', provides twelve key actions which need to be implemented to close the structural talent gap in the construction industry.

The report, developed in collaboration with The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), is the outcome of a roundtable with more than 30 high-profile representatives from leading global design, engineering and construction firms, industry associations, governments and academia. It outlines actions and successful implementation examples at company, industry and government-level.

Download the full report [https://futureofconstruction.org/practice/shaping-the-future-of-construction-an-action-plan-to-solve-the-industrys-talent-gap/_ here].

-----
This article was written by:

* Santiago Castagnino, Partner & Managing Director, The Boston Consulting Group
* Pablo Claver Gil, Partner & Managing Director, The Boston Consulting Group
* Christoph Rothballer, Principal, The Boston Consulting Group
* Till Zupancic, Project Manager Future of Construction, World Economic Forum
* Michael Max Buehler, Head of Infrastructure and Urban Development Industries, World Economic Forum

Please find the original article [https://futureofconstruction.org/blog/new-report-available-shaping-the-future-of-construction-an-action-plan-to-solve-the-industrys-talent-gap/ here]

--[[User:Future_of_Construction|Future of Construction]] 16:00, 22 Feb 2018 (BST)

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* Diversity in the construction industry.
* Eight ways to win the fight for talent in construction.
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* Tackling the construction skills shortage.
* To attract the right talent, offering flexibility and work-life balance will be essential.

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Shaping the future of construction: An action plan to solve the industry’s talent gap

2018-02-22T16:03:39Z

Future of Construction:

[[File:FOC1.jpg]]

The construction industry needs to take actions to close its talent gap as one major hurdle for its digital transformation

Recently, transformative technological developments, like 3D-printed houses, automated construction equipment and pre-fabricated skyscrapers, emerged. The digital transformation of the construction industry has the potential to uplift the decade-long stagnating productivity of the industry which is crucial for society’s well-being, economic prosperity and for the impact on the environment.

However, the industry needs new talent and skills to adopt the new technologies. The report, Shaping the Future of Construction: An Action Plan to solve the Industry’s Talent Gap, provides twelve key actions which needs to be implemented to close the structural talent gap of the construction industry.

The report, developed in collaboration with The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), is the outcome of a roundtable with more than 30 high-profile representatives from leading global design, engineering and construction firms, industry associations, governments and academia. The report outlines actions and successful implementation examples on company-, industry- and government-level.

Download the full report [http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Action_plan_to_solve_the_industrys_talent_gap.pdf here]

* Written by

Santiago Castagnino, Partner & Managing Director, The Boston Consulting Group | Pablo Claver Gil, Partner & Managing Director, The Boston Consulting Group | Christoph Rothballer, Principal, The Boston Consulting Group | Till Zupancic, Project Manager Future of Construction, World Economic Forum | Michael Max Buehler, Head of Infrastructure and Urban Development Industries, World Economic Forum

Please find the original article [https://futureofconstruction.org/blog/new-report-available-shaping-the-future-of-construction-an-action-plan-to-solve-the-industrys-talent-gap/ here]

--[[User:Future_of_Construction|Future of Construction]] 16:00, 22 Feb 2018 (BST)

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Shaping the future of construction: An action plan to solve the industry’s talent gap

2018-02-22T16:00:42Z

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The construction industry needs to take actions to close its talent gap as one major hurdle for its digital transformation

Recently, transformative technological developments, like 3D-printed houses, automated construction equipment and pre-fabricated skyscrapers, emerged. The digital transformation of the construction industry has the potential to uplift the decade-long stagnating productivity of the industry which is crucial for society’s well-being, economic prosperity and for the impact on the environment.

However, the industry needs new talent and skills to adopt the new technologies. The report, Shaping the Future of Construction: An Action Plan to solve the Industry’s Talent Gap, provides twelve key actions which needs to be implemented to close the structural talent gap of the construction industry.

The report, developed in collaboration with The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), is the outcome of a roundtable with more than 30 high-profile representatives from leading global design, engineering and construction firms, industry associations, governments and academia. The report outlines actions and successful implementation examples on company-, industry- and government-level.

Download the full report [http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Action_plan_to_solve_the_industrys_talent_gap.pdf here]

* Written by 
Santiago Castagnino, Partner & Managing Director, The Boston Consulting Group | Pablo Claver Gil, Partner & Managing Director, The Boston Consulting Group | Christoph Rothballer, Principal, The Boston Consulting Group | Till Zupancic, Project Manager Future of Construction, World Economic Forum | Michael Max Buehler, Head of Infrastructure and Urban Development Industries, World Economic Forum

Please find the original article [https://futureofconstruction.org/blog/new-report-available-shaping-the-future-of-construction-an-action-plan-to-solve-the-industrys-talent-gap/ here]

--[[User:Future of Construction|Future of Construction]] 16:00, 22 Feb 2018 (BST)

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Why the West has to join the Belt and Road Initiative

2017-12-19T14:19:32Z

Future of Construction:

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In today’s increasingly complex, fast-paced and interconnected world, breakthrough technologies, demographic shifts and political transformations are having far-reaching societal and economic consequences. Our societies are facing systemic global challenges that can no longer be addressed through the conventional linear approach of hierarchical corporate and governmental structures. The theme of the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting 2018, “[http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_AM18_Overview.pdf Creating a Shared Future in a Fractured World]”, makes the case for renewed commitment to international collaboration as a way of solving critical global challenges.

We are the cross-roads between utopia and dystopia. However, we still believe that a versatile combination of multi-stakeholder, collaborative platform as well as [https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/09/reinventing-leadership-the-10-imperative-leadership-aptitudes-you-will-need-as-a-systemic-leader/ systemic leadership approach] is urgently needed to enable a new era of amicable global cooperation to protect humanity and the planet. Large infrastructure programs such as the Belt and Road initiative are an outstanding opportunity to catalyze a positive development by forming new alliances in project provision and [http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Eight_Success_Factors_New_Silk_Road_2P_2017.pdf adopting transformational delivery practices] that drive our communities towards sustainability and shared prosperity.

As [https://cn.weforum.org/agenda/2017/05/oboren/ Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum] suitably puts it, “the Belt and Road Initiative makes a unique contribution to international cooperation and economic development: it is based on the stakeholder approach, it seeks to leverage market forces in best ways, it prepares best for the age of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, it is built on the open platform concept, and most importantly, this initiative is the positive narrative the world needs.”

The West has to join [http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Eight_Success_Factors_New_Silk_Road_2P_2017.pdf the Belt and Road Initiative] to deepen global cooperation. The Initiative has the potential to prompt a profound shift in the global order towards a new multilateralism. In a narrow sense, this initiative is primarily a strategic infrastructure initiative of historic proportions. The planning and delivery of scalable infrastructure for power generation, transportation, water supply, and telecommunications will bring much-needed economic and societal connectivity to the 65 countries along this new network. Through Belt and Road, China is proposing to share its immense financial and industrial resources and capabilities, as well as its experience of four decades of reform and opening-up, while securing its own long-term development.

If done right, the Belt and Road Initiative will have the potential to reform project delivery models which are increasingly contractually complex often leading to inflated transaction costs as well as conflicts and disputes, as shown in [http://www3.weforum.org/docs/How_Can_We_Avoid_Costly_Disputes_report_2017.pdf a recent World Economic Forum report]. A new open and collaborative approach enabled by technology and open data exchange is urgently required to assure value for money and to ultimately meet the sustainable development goals. [http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Eight_Success_Factors_New_Silk_Road_2P_2017.pdf In a recently published paper, the World Economic Forum] showcased the importance of a shared vision, open and multilateral policy dialogue, a project-preparation facility, proper risk mitigation to enable sustainable development, to create an environment of innovation that is human-centric, future-ready and that increases people-to-people exchange.

Due to globalization, hyper-connectivity and massive urbanization, the demand for infrastructure to be sustainable and complex is increasing at a rate that the engineering and construction sector is not keeping up with. This matters because the engineering and construction sector accounts for about 6% of global GDP and is growing. We would like to emphasize that we could be able to transform the sector since [https://www.weforum.org/reports/shaping-the-future-of-construction-a-breakthrough-in-mindset-and-technology/ a rise of only 1% in productivity] worldwide could save as much as $100 billion a year.

Furthermore, [http://www.un.org/pga/71/wp-content/uploads/sites/40/2017/06/Bridging-Global-Infrastructure-Gaps-Full-report-June-2016.pdf infrastructure investment has actually declined as a share of GDP in 11 of the G20 economies] since the global financial crisis, despite glaring gaps and years of debate about the importance of shoring up foundational systems. Cutbacks have occurred in the European Union, the United States, Russia, and Mexico. By contrast, Canada, Turkey, and South Africa increased investment.

There is hope and we believe the key is global cooperation: [http://futureofconstruction.org/about/ New trends are currently shaping the construction industry] – from innovative business models to new products and processes that are boosting productivity and enhancing efficiency. Innovative technologies that could change the way the industry has traditionally operated should be embraced more fully. Supported by technology, deepening the global cooperation will also enhance businesses to bring innovation into the sector through knowledge exchange as well as increased access to technical and financial resources. A consolidation of a globally fragmented industry will ease access to capital and improve the ability to bid for larger and more complex projects not only in the Belt and Road context but globally in developed and emerging markets. Short political cycles, short-term investment horizons, and a lack of viable financing structures and risk assessment frameworks mean that infrastructure and development lacks investment. There is currently a $1 trillion annual shortfall versus a $4 trillion demand for infrastructure alone. Closing these gaps is paramount if the world is to stay on a path to inclusive economic growth and recovery.

Deepening global cooperation will be an effective contribution to closing the [https://www.weforum.org/system-initiatives/shaping-the-future-of-long-term-investing-infrastructure-and-development Infrastructure funding gap]. As President Xi said in Davos, “We should develop new growth models and seize opportunities presented by the new round of industrial revolution and digital economy. We should strike a balance between efficiency and equity to ensure that different countries, different social strata and different groups of people all share in the benefits of economic globalization. The people of all countries expect nothing less from us and this is our responsibility as leaders of our times.”

* Written by

John M. Beck, CEO, President & Director, Aecon Group Inc | Michael Buehler, Head of Infrastructure and Urban Development Industries, World Economic Forum

Please find the original article [https://futureofconstruction.org/blog/why-the-west-has-to-join-the-belt-and-road-initiative/ here] .

--[[User:Future_of_Construction|Future of Construction]] 14:17, 19 Dec 2017 (BST)

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Why the West has to join the Belt and Road Initiative

2017-12-19T14:17:23Z

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In today’s increasingly complex, fast-paced and interconnected world, breakthrough technologies, demographic shifts and political transformations are having far-reaching societal and economic consequences. Our societies are facing systemic global challenges that can no longer be addressed through the conventional linear approach of hierarchical corporate and governmental structures. The theme of the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting 2018, “[http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_AM18_Overview.pdf Creating a Shared Future in a Fractured World]”, makes the case for renewed commitment to international collaboration as a way of solving critical global challenges.

We are the cross-roads between utopia and dystopia. However, we still believe that a versatile combination of multi-stakeholder, collaborative platform as well as [https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/09/reinventing-leadership-the-10-imperative-leadership-aptitudes-you-will-need-as-a-systemic-leader/ systemic leadership approach] is urgently needed to enable a new era of amicable global cooperation to protect humanity and the planet. Large infrastructure programs such as the Belt and Road initiative are an outstanding opportunity to catalyze a positive development by forming new alliances in project provision and [http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Eight_Success_Factors_New_Silk_Road_2P_2017.pdf adopting transformational delivery practices] that drive our communities towards sustainability and shared prosperity.

As [https://cn.weforum.org/agenda/2017/05/oboren/ Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum] suitably puts it, “the Belt and Road Initiative makes a unique contribution to international cooperation and economic development: it is based on the stakeholder approach, it seeks to leverage market forces in best ways, it prepares best for the age of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, it is built on the open platform concept, and most importantly, this initiative is the positive narrative the world needs.”

The West has to join [http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Eight_Success_Factors_New_Silk_Road_2P_2017.pdf the Belt and Road Initiative] to deepen global cooperation. The Initiative has the potential to prompt a profound shift in the global order towards a new multilateralism. In a narrow sense, this initiative is primarily a strategic infrastructure initiative of historic proportions. The planning and delivery of scalable infrastructure for power generation, transportation, water supply, and telecommunications will bring much-needed economic and societal connectivity to the 65 countries along this new network. Through Belt and Road, China is proposing to share its immense financial and industrial resources and capabilities, as well as its experience of four decades of reform and opening-up, while securing its own long-term development.

If done right, the Belt and Road Initiative will have the potential to reform project delivery models which are increasingly contractually complex often leading to inflated transaction costs as well as conflicts and disputes, as shown in [http://www3.weforum.org/docs/How_Can_We_Avoid_Costly_Disputes_report_2017.pdf a recent World Economic Forum report]. A new open and collaborative approach enabled by technology and open data exchange is urgently required to assure value for money and to ultimately meet the sustainable development goals. [http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Eight_Success_Factors_New_Silk_Road_2P_2017.pdf In a recently published paper, the World Economic Forum] showcased the importance of a shared vision, open and multilateral policy dialogue, a project-preparation facility, proper risk mitigation to enable sustainable development, to create an environment of innovation that is human-centric, future-ready and that increases people-to-people exchange.

Due to globalization, hyper-connectivity and massive urbanization, the demand for infrastructure to be sustainable and complex is increasing at a rate that the engineering and construction sector is not keeping up with. This matters because the engineering and construction sector accounts for about 6% of global GDP and is growing. We would like to emphasize that we could be able to transform the sector since [https://www.weforum.org/reports/shaping-the-future-of-construction-a-breakthrough-in-mindset-and-technology/ a rise of only 1% in productivity] worldwide could save as much as $100 billion a year.

Furthermore, [http://www.un.org/pga/71/wp-content/uploads/sites/40/2017/06/Bridging-Global-Infrastructure-Gaps-Full-report-June-2016.pdf infrastructure investment has actually declined as a share of GDP in 11 of the G20 economies] since the global financial crisis, despite glaring gaps and years of debate about the importance of shoring up foundational systems. Cutbacks have occurred in the European Union, the United States, Russia, and Mexico. By contrast, Canada, Turkey, and South Africa increased investment.

There is hope and we believe the key is global cooperation: [http://futureofconstruction.org/about/ New trends are currently shaping the construction industry] – from innovative business models to new products and processes that are boosting productivity and enhancing efficiency. Innovative technologies that could change the way the industry has traditionally operated should be embraced more fully. Supported by technology, deepening the global cooperation will also enhance businesses to bring innovation into the sector through knowledge exchange as well as increased access to technical and financial resources. A consolidation of a globally fragmented industry will ease access to capital and improve the ability to bid for larger and more complex projects not only in the Belt and Road context but globally in developed and emerging markets. Short political cycles, short-term investment horizons, and a lack of viable financing structures and risk assessment frameworks mean that infrastructure and development lacks investment. There is currently a $1 trillion annual shortfall versus a $4 trillion demand for infrastructure alone. Closing these gaps is paramount if the world is to stay on a path to inclusive economic growth and recovery.

Deepening global cooperation will be an effective contribution to closing the [https://www.weforum.org/system-initiatives/shaping-the-future-of-long-term-investing-infrastructure-and-development Infrastructure funding gap]. As President Xi said in Davos, “We should develop new growth models and seize opportunities presented by the new round of industrial revolution and digital economy. We should strike a balance between efficiency and equity to ensure that different countries, different social strata and different groups of people all share in the benefits of economic globalization. The people of all countries expect nothing less from us and this is our responsibility as leaders of our times.”

* Written by 
John M. Beck, CEO, President & Director, Aecon Group Inc | Michael Buehler, Head of Infrastructure and Urban Development Industries, World Economic Forum

--[[User:Future of Construction|Future of Construction]] 14:17, 19 Dec 2017 (BST)

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2017-12-19T14:16:32Z

Future of Construction:

Thoughts on the Future of Construction – The Next Big Thing

2017-12-04T16:17:28Z

Future of Construction:

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CEOs and high-level executives of established construction companies and start-ups explain what they expect will be the next big things in the engineering and construction industry. The range of expectations reaches from full digitalization, cloud computing and big data analytics to the deployment of innovative technologies like drones, robots and 3D BIM.

* Written by

Till Zupancic, Project Manager Future of Construction, World Economic Forum | Michael Max Buehler, Head of Infrastructure and Urban Development Industries, World Economic Forum

Please find the original article [https://futureofconstruction.org/blog/video-thoughts-on-the-future-of-construction-the-next-big-thing/ here] .

--[[User:Future_of_Construction|Future of Construction]] 16:16, 04 Dec 2017 (BST)

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Thoughts on the Future of Construction – The Next Big Thing

2017-12-04T16:16:43Z

Future of Construction:

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CEOs and high-level executives of established construction companies and start-ups explain what they expect will be the next big things in the engineering and construction industry. The range of expectations reaches from full digitalization, cloud computing and big data analytics to the deployment of innovative technologies like drones, robots and 3D BIM.

* Written by 
Till Zupancic, Project Manager Future of Construction, World Economic Forum | Michael Max Buehler, Head of Infrastructure and Urban Development Industries, World Economic Forum

--[[User:Future of Construction|Future of Construction]] 16:16, 04 Dec 2017 (BST)

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Thoughts on the Future of Construction – The Next Big Thing

2017-12-04T16:16:17Z

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CEOs and high-level executives of established construction companies and start-ups explain what they expect will be the next big things in the engineering and construction industry. The range of expectations reaches from full digitalization, cloud computing and big data analytics to the deployment of innovative technologies like drones, robots and 3D BIM.

* Written by 
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2017-12-04T16:14:23Z

Future of Construction:

The Largest Hurdles in the Industry – Thoughts on the Future of Construction

2017-11-30T14:13:48Z

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CEOs and high-level executives of established construction companies and start-ups explain what they expect will be the largest hurdles in the future of the engineering and construction industry. In their eyes there are several hurdles which makes the crucial adoption of innovative technologies in this still very traditional industry more difficult. Among these hurdles are low investments in R&D due to project driven business models or the shortage of skilled labor.

* Written by 
Till Zupancic, Project Manager Future of Construction, World Economic Forum | Michael Max Buehler, Head of Infrastructure and Urban Development Industries, World Economic Forum

--[[User:Future of Construction|Future of Construction]] 14:13, 30 Nov 2017 (BST)

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The Largest Hurdles in the Industry – Thoughts on the Future of Construction

2017-11-30T14:09:50Z

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CEOs and high-level executives of established construction companies and start-ups explain what they expect will be the largest hurdles in the future of the engineering and construction industry. In their eyes there are several hurdles which makes the crucial adoption of innovative technologies in this still very traditional industry more difficult. Among these hurdles are low investments in R&D due to project driven business models or the shortage of skilled labor.

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2017-11-30T14:08:57Z

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The role of humans in the future of construction

2017-11-29T13:20:53Z

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CEOs and high-level executives of established construction companies and start-ups explain what they expect will be the role of humans in the future of construction. It is expected that automation and robotics replace many of the current jobs. However, there will be new roles for humans in the engineering & construction industry. These new job profiles will include more planning, quality control and monitoring tasks. Upskilling of the workforce is required to enable the orchestrating of the robotic symphony. Furthermore it is expected that many jobs will move to pre-fabrication factories.

* Written by 
Till Zupancic, Project Manager Future of Construction, World Economic Forum | Michael Max Buehler, Head of Infrastructure and Urban Development Industries, World Economic Forum

Please find the original article [https://futureofconstruction.org/blog/video-the-role-of-humans-thoughts-on-the-future-of-construction/ here]

--[[User:Future of Construction|Future of Construction]] 13:20, 29 Nov 2017 (BST)

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2017-11-29T13:20:32Z

Future of Construction:

The construction site of the future

2017-11-28T13:45:59Z

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CEOs and high-level executives of established construction companies and start-ups explain how they imagine the construction site of the future will look like. It is expected that a part of construction works moves to pre-fabrication factories. Standardized modules will be installed afterwards on-site. A common believe is that new technologies like 3D-printing, autonomous vehicles and robots will take over a part of the tasks on-site.

* Written by 
Till Zupancic, Project Manager Future of Construction, World Economic Forum | Michael Max Buehler, Head of Infrastructure and Urban Development Industries, World Economic Forum

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--[[User:Future of Construction|Future of Construction]] 13:45, 28 Nov 2017 (BST)

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2017-11-28T13:42:32Z

Future of Construction:

The Definition of Good Construction- Thoughts on the Future of Construction

2017-11-23T09:39:42Z

Future of Construction:

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CEOs and high-level executives of established construction companies and start-ups explain how they think good construction will be defined in the future. According to them the main characteristics of good construction will be zero defects and accidents, efficiency and sustainability as well as completion on time and on budget. Furthermore assets should be constructed flexible in order to be improved over time.

Written by

Till Zupancic, Project Manager Future of Construction, World Economic Forum | Michael Max Buehler, Head of Infrastructure and Urban Development Industries, World Economic Forum

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--[[User:Future_of_Construction|Future of Construction]] 12:08, 21 Nov 2017 (BST)

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The Most Successful Players - Thoughts on the Future of Construction

2017-11-23T09:38:17Z

Future of Construction:

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CEOs and high-level executives of established construction companies and start-ups explain who they expect to be the most successful players in the future of construction. As key success factors are seen hiring the right people, sharing knowledge and a high speed of learning. Furthermore it is expected that thinking in an entrepreneurial sense and a high rate of experimentation are important. Vertical integration to deliver additional value throughout the full construction process might be an additional success factor.

* Written by

Till Zupancic, Project Manager Future of Construction, World Economic Forum | Michael Max Buehler, Head of Infrastructure and Urban Development Industries, World Economic Forum

Please find the original post [https://futureofconstruction.org/blog/video-the-most-successful-players-thoughts-on-the-future-of-construction/ here]

--[[User:Future_of_Construction|Future of Construction]] 09:30, 23 Nov 2017 (BST)

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2017-11-23T09:37:43Z

Future of Construction:

The Most Successful Players - Thoughts on the Future of Construction

2017-11-23T09:30:08Z

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CEOs and high-level executives of established construction companies and start-ups explain who they expect to be the most successful players in the future of construction. As key success factors are seen hiring the right people, sharing knowledge and a high speed of learning. Furthermore it is expected that thinking in an entrepreneurial sense and a high rate of experimentation are important. Vertical integration to deliver additional value throughout the full construction process might be an additional success factor.

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Till Zupancic, Project Manager Future of Construction, World Economic Forum | Michael Max Buehler, Head of Infrastructure and Urban Development Industries, World Economic Forum

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The Definition of Good Construction- Thoughts on the Future of Construction

2017-11-21T12:10:47Z

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CEOs and high-level executives of established construction companies and start-ups explain how they think good construction will be defined in the future. According to them the main characteristics of good construction will be zero defects and accidents, efficiency and sustainability as well as completion on time and on budget. Furthermore assets should be constructed flexible in order to be improved over time.

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Till Zupancic, Project Manager Future of Construction, World Economic Forum | Michael Max Buehler, Head of Infrastructure and Urban Development Industries, World Economic Forum

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The Definition of Good Construction- Thoughts on the Future of Construction

2017-11-21T12:10:27Z

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CEOs and high-level executives of established construction companies and start-ups explain how they think good construction will be defined in the future. According to them the main characteristics of good construction will be zero defects and accidents, efficiency and sustainability as well as completion on time and on budget. Furthermore assets should be constructed flexible in order to be improved over time.

Written by

Till Zupancic, Project Manager Future of Construction, World Economic Forum | Michael Max Buehler, Head of Infrastructure and Urban Development Industries, World Economic Forum

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The Definition of Good Construction- Thoughts on the Future of Construction

2017-11-21T12:08:58Z

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CEOs and high-level executives of established construction companies and start-ups explain how they think good construction will be defined in the future. According to them the main characteristics of good construction will be zero defects and accidents, efficiency and sustainability as well as completion on time and on budget. Furthermore assets should be constructed flexible in order to be improved over time.

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The New Silk Road

2017-10-24T12:39:36Z

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What is the New Silk Road?

The Silk Road was the name given in 1877 by the German geographer Ferdinand von Richthofen to the ancient network of trade routes linking China to central and western Asia, India and the Mediterranean region. Today, China is breathing new life into the Silk Road with the goal of forging stronger relationships with its neighbours through the development and sharing of resources. President Xi Jinping, speaking at the World Economic Forum 2017 in Davos, referred to the ancient Silk Road, highlighting the fact that international trade is an inherent human activity that helped in the past to maintain peace and stability over long periods of time.

What is its potential?

Today, the New Silk Road, or what is known as the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), has the potential to prompt a profound shift in the global order towards a new multilateralism. In a narrow sense, the BRI is primarily a strategic infrastructure initiative of historic proportions. The planning and delivery of scalable infrastructure for power generation, transportation, water supply, and telecommunications will bring much-needed economic and societal connectivity to the 65 countries along this new network. Through the BRI, China is proposing to share its immense financial and industrial resources and capabilities, as well as its experience of four decades of reform and opening-up, while securing its own long-term development.

The Belt and Road Initiative makes a unique contribution to international cooperation and economic development: it is based on the stakeholder approach, it seeks to leverage market forces in best ways, it prepares best for the age of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, it is built on the open-platform concept and, most importantly, it is the positive narrative the world needs.

Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum

The BRI has [http://en.ndrc.gov.cn/newsrelease/201503/t20150330_669367.html five major goals]: policy coordination; facilities’ connectivity; unimpeded trade; financial integration; and people-to-people exchange. Beyond the initial commitment by the Chinese government of about $1 trillion in infrastructure development, which [http://regionalrapport.com/2017/06/20/financing-belt-road-initiative/ conservative estimates believe] to be viable, the BRI will require roughly an aggregate of $6 trillion for the next 15 years to finance infrastructure projects fuelling the Belt and Road economies. During that period, the Chinese plan to cumulatively invest $4 trillion in total – about 20 times the size of the post-Second World War Marshall Plan investment of $17 billion, which has a value of about $190 billion today. Several multilateral development banks have also [http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-05/15/c_136286376.htm committed] to support the BRI to accomplish those ambitious goals and finance BRI-related projects.

What are the eight steps towards shared prosperity and a sustainable future? 
 
To avoid being locked into unsustainable patterns of development, which has been the common pitfall of large-scale strategic infrastructure projects, we anticipate eight transformation factors that have the potential to provide high-level stewardship for the BRI and revive the spirit of shared prosperity. These insights are derived from several years of analysing the infrastructure industry and its development projects.

To avoid being locked into unsustainable patterns of development, which has been the common pitfall of large-scale strategic infrastructure projects, we anticipate eight transformation factors that have the potential to provide high-level stewardship for the BRI and revive the spirit of shared prosperity. These insights are derived from several years of analysing the infrastructure industry and its development projects.

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1. Shared vision: Achieving transnational and international support for a shared vision for strategic infrastructure development that promotes wellbeing and a national sense of purpose to the communities beyond national borders.

2. Multilateralism: Curating an open and multilateral policy dialogue that addresses public-private-civic cooperation, early-stage project financing, standardized procurement and transparency, to level the playing field and build trusted relationships.

3. Project-preparation facility: Creating an infrastructure project-preparation facility to ensure a pipeline of bankable projects and a transnational centre of excellence to deliver the largest portfolio of projects ever.

4. Risk mitigation: Proactively mitigating political and regulatory risk to boost stakeholder engagement and confidence in the plan by investors, off-takers and operators.

5. Sustainable development: Committing to sustainability, inclusion and affordability principles to generate value for future generations beyond Agenda 2030.

6. Innovation: Enhancing technological and business model innovation for sustained value creation, ensuring readiness for the future.

7. People-to-people exchange: Governing domestic and cross-border migration and promoting mutual learning and understanding, to enable and deepen people-to-people exchange and transnational cultural cooperation, ensuring transcendent growth and universal purpose.

8. Human-centric and future-ready: Delivering the new humane infrastructure heritage beyond the current infrastructure usage for the next millennium.

Read more on what it takes to implement the eight steps towards shared prosperity and a sustainable future [http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Eight_Success_Factors_New_Silk_Road_2P_2017.pdf here].

* Written by 
Michael Buehler, Head of Infrastructure & Urban Development, World Economic Forum | Thorsten Jelinek, Director, Taihe Institute | Sergio Gusmao Suchodolski, Director General, Strategy and Partnerships, New Development Bank (NDB) | Pedro Rodrigues De Almeida, Member B20 Task Force on Financing Growth & Infrastructure, B20 Germany | Olivier M. Schwab, Head of Business Engagement - Member of the Managing Board, World Economic Forum

Please find the original article [https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/10/the-new-silk-road-8-steps-to-ensuring-china-s-900-billion-project-is-a-success/ here]

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This is what makes your city better

2017-10-24T09:46:50Z

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Our cities have now been named as the saving places of a planet in crisis. And yet we cannot decide on the principles that make for a good city. Everybody has a view, but some views are more sustainable than others.

What we desperately need is a big and general public dialogue about the principles that make for a good city. This is the basis of our project, [https://www.ecocity2017.com/about/principles-for-better-cities/ Principles for Better Cities], led by the City of Berlin. It provides a platform for the [https://www.ecocity2017.com/ Ecocity World Summit] in Melbourne this week.

Broader vision is needed

We need to get beyond the current tendency to become fixated on spruiking different high-level concepts. For example, IBM, Microsoft and Big Tech have put their money – or actually other people’s money – [https://theconversation.com/creative-city-smart-city-whose-city-is-it-78258 on the smart city].

But the concept of the smart city is too often reduced to narrow technological monitoring and big data collection. [http://www.mckinsey.com/global-themes/urbanization/how-to-make-a-city-great McKinsey] says that a good city will achieve “smart growth”. But tell that to Brussels, Chicago, Montreal, Toronto and Vienna, global cities that are [https://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2016/nov/02/global-population-decline-cities-mapped declining in size].

The [https://mobilityexchange.mercer.com/quality-of-living-rankings Mercer] group and [https://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2016/08/daily-chart-14 The Economist] tell us liveability is the key. However, they narrowly developed their indices for corporations seeking to decide on how much they will pay their executives for moving to less liveable cities. This raises a further question: “Liveable for whom?”

The [https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/our-work/initiatives/100-resilient-cities/ Rockefeller Foundation is backing] the [https://theconversation.com/has-the-100-resilient-cities-challenge-benefited-melbourne-60307 resilient city]. This too is an important concept. But much of its appeal to governments is in saving resources as they seek to defer increasing climate risks through pushing responsibility back to resilient communities to self-manage their recoveries.

A common problem of definition

What actually is a good city then?

Depending on who you ask, they are sustainable cities, liveable cities and resilient cities, but they are also adapting cities and carbon-neutral cities. Or they are caring cities, inclusive cities, just cities, peaceful cities, information cities and networked cities. To confuse things further, they are also prosperous cities, learning cities and innovative cities.

Just by listing these urban forms, the problem starts to become clearer. These are just concepts with shifting or weak definitions. They mean anything “good” and apply variously to anybody’s projections.

The second problem comes with deciding what is actually good about these different emphases.

As part of this difficulty, assigning different indicators to each of these urban forms is extraordinarily difficult. Is a city more liveable because it has a Mediterranean climate? That is what the current liveability indices would suggest.

Is a city more resilient because its “man-made assets” are more robust? (Excuse the gender-specific language here.) That is what the core resilience literature tells us.

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Who decides?

The third problem centres on the question: “Who decides what is good?”

The principles and indicators tend to be decided by elite researchers working at a distance from the field, or by teams using sets of secondary data that may or may not be appropriate.

There’s not much a city can do about being close to the beach or having a Mediterranean climate.

Elite teams develop black-box indicator sets (such as liveability indexes) that remain commercial-in-confidence. The data drive the index construction without consideration of the meaning of that data. For example, one index ranking better cities in the greater Sydney region is driven by an indicator that suggests a key consideration is being closer to the beach or mountains.

The fourth problem becomes how do we order and prioritise the many claims about what is good. There are so many considerations that the number of potential principles becomes overwhelming.

This happened to the [https://theconversation.com/what-can-the-new-urban-agenda-and-sustainable-development-goals-do-for-cities-75533 New Urban Agenda], developed by the United Nations over the last two years. It has hundreds of principles, all thrown together in an incomprehensible list. Cities are understandably confused.

Towards an inclusive, holistic approach

Our [http://www.circlesofsustainability.org/principles/ Principles for Better Cities] attempt to respond to all these problems. Complementary to the New Urban Agenda, Principles for Better Cities is an initiative of the [https://www.metropolis.org/ World Association of Major Metropolises], which has been working with cities on a set of basic principles to guide good urban development.

This set is based on the proposition that, rather than just adding together a list of proposals from different current or immediate concerns, the principles should begin from a general framework that concerns the human condition.

We start with the idea that there should be basic principles that relate to the following basic domains of social life:

[http://www.circlesofsustainability.org/circles-overview/profile-circles/ecology-2/ Ecology] – cities should have a deep and integrated relationship with nature.

[http://www.circlesofsustainability.org/circles-overview/profile-circles/economics/ Economics] – cities should be based on an economy organised around the social needs of all citizens.

[http://www.circlesofsustainability.org/circles-overview/profile-circles/politics-2/ Politics] – cities should have an enhanced emphasis on engaged and negotiated civic involvement.

[http://www.circlesofsustainability.org/circles-overview/profile-circles/culture-2/ Culture] – cities should actively develop ongoing processes for dealing with the uncomfortable intersections of identity and difference.

These have become the top-level principles for going deeper and deeper, elaborated across more and more specific subdomains of practice.

And here is the completely novel dimension. These principles have been and will be debated by people. None of these principles are fixed, hidden, confusing, or commercial-in-confidence. They are the outcome of open dialogue.

Please find the original article [https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/07/these-are-the-factors-that-make-one-city-better-than-another link].

* Written by 
Paul James, Professor of Globalization and Cultural Diversity, Western Sydney University | Belinda Young, Project Officer – Ecocity, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, University of Melbourne | Brendan Gleeson, Director of Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute at The University of Melbourne | John Wiseman, Professorial Fellow, University of Melbourne

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2017-10-24T09:45:53Z

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2017-10-24T09:43:34Z

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Interdisciplinary Architecture and the Future of Cities

2017-10-20T09:59:04Z

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Architecture, as both a profession and the built environment, currently finds itself at a crossroads in trying to adapt to a world in constant flux. [http://www.archdaily.com/tag/cities Cities] and its people face continuous socio-economic, political and environmental change on a daily basis, prompting a necessary rethink in the evolution of [http://www.archdaily.com/category/sustainability sustainable] [http://www.archdaily.com/tag/urbanization urbanization]. With a focus on housing, society and cultural heritage, [https://www.architecture.com/whats-on/change-in-the-city-opportunities-for-architects-in-the-new-urban-agenda-conference RIBA’s International Conference, Change in the City], aims to offer insight into the “New Urban Agenda” and how architects can play an interdisciplinary role in future urban development.

Speaking in an interview ahead of the conference, [http://www.archdaily.com/tag/norman-foster/ Norman Foster] is a strong advocate for a careful consideration of what aspects of urban life need to be prioritized when designing [http://www.archdaily.com/tag/cities cities] of the future. For an increasingly global society, Foster stresses the need for architecture to surpass buildings and tackle its greatest obstacle – global warming, honing in on its roots and factors involved to create viable urban solutions.

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Sainsbury Centre, Foster + Partners. Image © Tim Caynes

“By 2050, 25% of humanity will be living in [http://www.archdaily.com/tag/cities cities]. The biggest challenge facing cities and urbanities is global warming. The causes of that, the generation of power, industry, agriculture, transport and buildings, it is that collective that needs to be addressed.“

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Hearst Tower, Foster + Partners. Image © Chuck Choi

[http://www.archdaily.com/category/infrastructure Infrastructure], “the urban glue that binds buildings together”, is another aspect that architects need to work with, surpassing the expectations of simply creating single structures while also encompassing transportation and public space. This is a step in reviving the condition of traditional [http://www.archdaily.com/tag/cities cities], which did not separate areas of living, working, and culture and created mixed-use environments instead of ghettoization.

“We have to be looking outside of buildings. We have to be looking at settlements, the combination of [http://www.archdaily.com/category/infrastructure infrastructure], the connections, the public spaces, the links and the transport, because the [http://www.archdaily.com/category/sustainability sustainable] now and in the future, it’s about strong civic leadership, pedestrianisation, people over cars. It’s about high density.“

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Spaceport America, Foster + Partners. Image © Nigel Young

Furthermore, [http://www.archdaily.com/tag/norman-foster/ Foster] argues that the only way to be able to enact such changes and advances in [http://www.archdaily.com/category/sustainability sustainability] is through a revised interdisciplinary approach to design. Central to this is the architect’s ability to advocate, share knowledge and collaborate with other fields, allowing other architects to build on prior work.

“As a profession, we have to embrace other disciplines. The future and addressing the issues of greater complexity means that from the very beginning we need more disciplines working together. We can’t have the arrogance of believing that we can design a building and let the others kind of make it a reality.“

For all of [http://www.archdaily.com/tag/norman-foster/ Lord Foster’s] insights into the future of [http://www.archdaily.com/tag/cities cities], check out the full interview above.

News via: [https://www.architecture.com/knowledge-and-resources/knowledge-landing-page/lord-norman-foster-on-the-future-of-cities RIBA].

Please find the original article [http://www.archdaily.com/875169/norman-foster-stresses-the-importance-of-interdisciplinary-architecture-in-creating-future-cities here]

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Osman Bari, ArchDaily

--[[User:Future_of_Construction|Future of Construction]] 10:06, 20 Oct 2017 (BST)

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China has just built the world’s longest elevated cycle path

2017-10-20T09:38:03Z

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We’ve heard of Beijing’s nine million bikes and China referred to as the “Kingdom of Bicycles”. But the reality in many Chinese cities is that the car is king, and getting from A to B has become increasingly difficult – and dangerous – for the country’s cyclists.

However, the emergence of [https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/06/china-leads-the-world-in-bike-sharing-and-now-its-uber-for-bikes-model-is-going-global/ popular bike-sharing schemes], frustration with gridlocked roads, and efforts to tackle the country’s air pollution crisis are all helping to rekindle China’s love affair with cycling.

The southeast city of Xiamen has gone even further with the construction of a 7.6km elevated skyway for bikes – the world’s longest elevated cycle path.

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Connecting the major residential and business sectors of the city, the aerial cycleway sits below Xiamen’s existing overhead bus transport system. At 4.8 m wide it has capacity for over 2000 bikes at a time, and will join up with 11 bus stations and two subway stations. As well as space to park bikes, it will also have bikes available to hire.

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Designed and completed in six months, the project was the latest in a number of raised cycleways by Danish architects Dissing+Weitling. Another project, the ‘[https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/jul/14/bike-lanes-bridge-copenhagen-new-cycle-snake-cykelslangen Bicycle Snake]’, was completed in 2014. The 230 m bridge connects Copenhagen’s harbour area to the city.

Copenhagen had already cemented its status as a bike-friendly city with a [http://denmark.dk/en/green-living/bicycle-culture/cycle-super-highway/ cycle super-highway] that connects the city with the suburban town of Albertslund, 22 km away. The eventual aim is to build a network of 28 cycle superhighways, covering 500 km. It is estimated the network will increase the number of cycle lanes in Greater Copenhagen by 15% and reduce public expenditure by €40.3m annually thanks to improved health.

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Meanwhile, London is among other cities considering proposals for elevated bike paths. Architect Norman Foster [http://www.fosterandpartners.com/ar/news/archive/2013/12/skycycle-proposals-to-create-safe-new-cycle-routes-throughout-london/ unveiled plans] to create a 220 km car-free cycle network around the city and surrounds. The city has already introduced a network of cycle superhighways on roads.

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Please find the original article [https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/07/china-has-just-built-the-world-s-longest-elevated-cycle-path here]

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Charlotte Edmond, Formative Content

* --[[User:Future_of_Construction|Future of Construction]] 10:34, 20 Oct 2017 (BST)

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China has just built the world’s longest elevated cycle path

2017-10-20T09:37:16Z

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We’ve heard of Beijing’s nine million bikes and China referred to as the “Kingdom of Bicycles”. But the reality in many Chinese cities is that the car is king, and getting from A to B has become increasingly difficult – and dangerous – for the country’s cyclists.

However, the emergence of [https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/06/china-leads-the-world-in-bike-sharing-and-now-its-uber-for-bikes-model-is-going-global/ popular bike-sharing schemes], frustration with gridlocked roads, and efforts to tackle the country’s air pollution crisis are all helping to rekindle China’s love affair with cycling.

The southeast city of Xiamen has gone even further with the construction of a 7.6km elevated skyway for bikes – the world’s longest elevated cycle path.

[[File:China-bicycle.PNG|link=File:China-bicycle.PNG]]

image: Dissing + Weitling Architecture

Connecting the major residential and business sectors of the city, the aerial cycleway sits below Xiamen’s existing overhead bus transport system. At 4.8 m wide it has capacity for over 2000 bikes at a time, and will join up with 11 bus stations and two subway stations. As well as space to park bikes, it will also have bikes available to hire.

[[File:China-bicycle1.PNG|link=File:China-bicycle1.PNG]]

Image: Dissing + Weitling Architecture

Designed and completed in six months, the project was the latest in a number of raised cycleways by Danish architects Dissing+Weitling. Another project, the ‘[https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/jul/14/bike-lanes-bridge-copenhagen-new-cycle-snake-cykelslangen Bicycle Snake]’, was completed in 2014. The 230 m bridge connects Copenhagen’s harbour area to the city.

Copenhagen had already cemented its status as a bike-friendly city with a [http://denmark.dk/en/green-living/bicycle-culture/cycle-super-highway/ cycle super-highway] that connects the city with the suburban town of Albertslund, 22 km away. The eventual aim is to build a network of 28 cycle superhighways, covering 500 km. It is estimated the network will increase the number of cycle lanes in Greater Copenhagen by 15% and reduce public expenditure by €40.3m annually thanks to improved health.

[[File:China-bicycle2.PNG|link=File:China-bicycle2.PNG]]

Image: Foster + Partners

Meanwhile, London is among other cities considering proposals for elevated bike paths. Architect Norman Foster [http://www.fosterandpartners.com/ar/news/archive/2013/12/skycycle-proposals-to-create-safe-new-cycle-routes-throughout-london/ unveiled plans] to create a 220 km car-free cycle network around the city and surrounds. The city has already introduced a network of cycle superhighways on roads.

[[File:China-bicycle3.PNG|link=https://youtu.be/o1sxEUEnQ4A]]

[https://youtu.be/o1sxEUEnQ4A https://youtu.be/o1sxEUEnQ4A]

Please find the original article [https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/07/china-has-just-built-the-world-s-longest-elevated-cycle-path here]

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* --[[User:Future_of_Construction|Future of Construction]] 10:34, 20 Oct 2017 (BST)

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China has just built the world’s longest elevated cycle path

2017-10-20T09:34:31Z

Future of Construction: Created page with "File:China-longest-bicycle-path-1000x430.jpg We’ve heard of Beijing’s nine million bikes and China referred to as the “Kingdom of Bicycles”. But the reality in many ..."

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We’ve heard of Beijing’s nine million bikes and China referred to as the “Kingdom of Bicycles”. But the reality in many Chinese cities is that the car is king, and getting from A to B has become increasingly difficult – and dangerous – for the country’s cyclists.

However, the emergence of [https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/06/china-leads-the-world-in-bike-sharing-and-now-its-uber-for-bikes-model-is-going-global/ popular bike-sharing schemes], frustration with gridlocked roads, and efforts to tackle the country’s air pollution crisis are all helping to rekindle China’s love affair with cycling.

The southeast city of Xiamen has gone even further with the construction of a 7.6km elevated skyway for bikes – the world’s longest elevated cycle path.

[[File:China-bicycle.PNG]]

image: Dissing + Weitling Architecture

Connecting the major residential and business sectors of the city, the aerial cycleway sits below Xiamen’s existing overhead bus transport system. At 4.8 m wide it has capacity for over 2000 bikes at a time, and will join up with 11 bus stations and two subway stations. As well as space to park bikes, it will also have bikes available to hire.

[[File:China-bicycle1.PNG]]

Image: Dissing + Weitling Architecture

Designed and completed in six months, the project was the latest in a number of raised cycleways by Danish architects Dissing+Weitling. Another project, the ‘[https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/jul/14/bike-lanes-bridge-copenhagen-new-cycle-snake-cykelslangen Bicycle Snake]’, was completed in 2014. The 230 m bridge connects Copenhagen’s harbour area to the city.

Copenhagen had already cemented its status as a bike-friendly city with a [http://denmark.dk/en/green-living/bicycle-culture/cycle-super-highway/ cycle super-highway] that connects the city with the suburban town of Albertslund, 22 km away. The eventual aim is to build a network of 28 cycle superhighways, covering 500 km. It is estimated the network will increase the number of cycle lanes in Greater Copenhagen by 15% and reduce public expenditure by €40.3m annually thanks to improved health.

[[File:China-bicycle2.PNG]]

Image: Foster + Partners

Meanwhile, London is among other cities considering proposals for elevated bike paths. Architect Norman Foster [http://www.fosterandpartners.com/ar/news/archive/2013/12/skycycle-proposals-to-create-safe-new-cycle-routes-throughout-london/ unveiled plans] to create a 220 km car-free cycle network around the city and surrounds. The city has already introduced a network of cycle superhighways on roads.

[https://youtu.be/o1sxEUEnQ4A https://youtu.be/o1sxEUEnQ4A]

Please find the original article [https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/07/china-has-just-built-the-world-s-longest-elevated-cycle-path here]

* Written by 
Charlotte Edmond, Formative Content
* --[[User:Future of Construction|Future of Construction]] 10:34, 20 Oct 2017 (BST)

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