In recent decades, the global AECO industry has been falling behind with digital transformation. Building projects have become like highly calibrated machines, with complex mechanical and information technology systems and increasing numbers of stakeholders, but the processes and tools for managing them have remained nearly unchanged.
The digital age is bringing a better way—and it is poised to disrupt the AECO industry’s business-as-usual. I call it the digital building lifecycle approach: a method of using data to deliver built environments with higher total performance at lower total cost. The digital future is about creating new business models, disrupting processes, and innovating tools that empower the digital building lifecycle approach—changes that could influence the entire AECO industry.
Salla Eckhardt is an industry change-maker and has been working on broad-spectrum of digital transformation projects over the past 20+ years. She is passionately interested in the better future of our built environment and development of smart cities. Working hands-on in different key stakeholder roles has accumulated a deep understanding of why the built environment industry needs to digitally transform (Industry 4.0), and how we might do it together (Industry 5.0).
In recent decades, the global AECO industry has been falling behind with digital transformation. Building projects have become like highly calibrated machines, with complex mechanical and information technology systems and increasing numbers of stakeholders, but the processes and tools for managing them have remained nearly unchanged.
The digital age is bringing a better way—and it is poised to disrupt the AECO industry’s business-as-usual. I call it the digital building lifecycle approach: a method of using data to deliver built environments with higher total performance at lower total cost. The digital future is about creating new business models, disrupting processes, and innovating tools that empower the digital building lifecycle approach—changes that could influence the entire AECO industry.
