The digital age has propelled the construction industry towards its digital revolution. This revolution is needed to overcome the project inefficiencies, stagnated productivity levels and safety concerns that have long troubled the industry. The transformation will require new lean processes that would harness these new technologies and the power of information to improve collaboration, productivity and safety. The Integrated Digital Delivery (IDD) is envisaged for this transformation that integrates processes and stakeholders throughout the project value chain from design to asset management through a common data environment and the exploitation of digital technologies.

This cluster has focused on 3 main thrusts:

1. Adoption of digital technologies to enhance and automate construction processes;
2. Exploitation of machine intelligence to augment decision making and automation; and
3. Development of smart materials.

Past research has focused on five aspects of project value chain:

• Intelligent Design with BIM such as BIM-based Design for Safety checker;
• Digital Construction Planning including BIM-based automatic scheduling;
• Lean Virtual Construction such as BIM-based optimized DfMA production;
• Smart Project Control including autonomous drone in GPS-denied environment; and
• Data-driven Facility Management such as drone vision-based defect management.

Director:  Dr Yeoh Ker-Wei, Justin

Co-Director:  Assoc Prof Pang Sze Dai