A Massive Transformation in the Construction Industry: The Prelude to a Digital Transformation

While virtually every industry, including manufacturing, finance, and distribution, has experienced fundamental innovation through digital technologies over the past several decades, the construction industry has been relatively slow to change.
But now, the construction industry stands at the threshold of a massive transformation that can no longer be avoided.
This transition is not an incremental change that simply involves introducing new tools or improving some processes.
This signifies a fundamental paradigm shift that will reconstruct the industry's operating philosophy, value creation methods, and the entire ecosystem, namely a major shift to 'Smart Construction.'


Traditional construction methods rely heavily on the experience and intuition of skilled workers and are characterized by segmented processes that are carried out sequentially.
This approach has long been the foundation of industry, but in today's complex and rapidly changing environment, it is revealing structural limitations such as stagnant productivity, deepening labor shortages, and chronic safety issues.
Smart construction is an inevitable alternative to overcome these limitations.
This is a new approach that integrates and optimizes the entire lifecycle of a construction project by leveraging data and digital technologies.
In other words, the goal is to shift the focus from experience-based analog decision-making to data-based scientific decision-making, from labor-centered production to automation technology-centered production, and beyond the completion of physical structures to the creation and utilization of digital assets.