Many solutions to current challenges brought on by the Covid-19 crisis will be digitally based. Technology and the management of information and personnel will be key in helping the built environment sector get its workforce and sites back into operation safely, securely and informed whilst ensuring improved productivity and performance. Digital solutions have also become ever more important as areas of the sector are increasingly working remotely.
Sensors, wearable technology, smart helmets, smart sites, virtual reality and learning, 3D design, drones, aerial and laser scanning and cloud based data sharing are examples of current technology being applied in innovative ways which now have the opportunity to reach their full potential within the construction sector.
| Performance Improvement | Technology | |
| Social distancing and monitoring | Proximity sensing, alarms and Bluetooth technology | |
| Improve remote collaboration & information sharing | Common data environments | |
| Improve virtual stakeholder engagement via visual 3D models | Digital viewing tools and virtual reality | |
| Visual monitoring and surveys to support remote site inspections | Progression scanning technology & drones | |
| Virtual transition of pupils moving into new school environment | Reality capture & virtual reality |
Scottish Futures Trust, with input from CSIC, have created the Infrastructure Technology Navigator tool to support public sector clients and the construction sector identify and implement technology that will improve their performance. Search the useful tool to help understand the technology or solutions that are available now to help your organisation respond to Covid-19 challenges: improve processes and protocols, reduce costs, improve asset performance and construction quality or support and upskill your workforce.
Use the i-Con Matchmaking Catalogue to register your key challenges, technology interest areas or to promote solutions or concepts that could answer the industry's biggest problems at this critical time.
