Digital technology helps the construction industry break through

"We use BIM (Building Information Modeling) technology to integrate the engineering information, management information, and resource information of the building throughout its life cycle into a unified model to break up the fragmentation of business in the design, construction, and operation and maintenance phases, and data cannot be shared. In the smart command center of the Hubei Ezhou Shunfeng Airport project, the project staff clicks the mouse, and the project details are immediately presented in the form of a plane or three-dimensional view, so that each component can be easily grasped. According to the accurate status of planning, construction, and acceptance, adjust the next work plan in real time.

"The digital construction of precise planning, BIM model splitting, quality inspection and evaluation, construction by model, three-dimensional scanning acceptance, and one-click payment for engineering funds is a profound change to the traditional construction mode." said Liu Yutao, technical director of Zhongtian Holding Group, digitalization The application of construction technology has effectively improved the operational efficiency of business processes and realized the intelligent management of "human, machine, material, method, and environment".

Behind the "intelligence" is the "China-built" hard-core technology "code". With the help of new technologies represented by digital technology, the traditional construction industry, which is characterized by labor-intensive and extensive development, is marching toward the era of "intelligent construction" with high spirits.

Deep integration of digital technology and construction industry

New business forms of the construction industry are gradually taking shape

"The rise of digital technology is not an accidental economic phenomenon, but the inevitable result of the superposition of new technological revolutions and industrial changes when technological progress and industrialization have reached a certain stage." Ye, Secretary-General of the Construction Industry Modernization Development Committee of the Architectural Society of China Ming said that emerging new technologies have pushed the world from the era of interconnected information to the era of intelligent information, and constantly reformed the world to form new business formats, form a new innovation ecosystem, and bring new opportunities for industrial development.

In Ye Ming's view, the introduction of digital technology has broken the inherent form of the construction industry in the process of technological innovation, which is independent and self-enclosed, has accelerated the process of technology integration and application between the upstream and downstream of the enterprise, and promoted the technological innovation and Deep integration between affiliated companies. At present, most large-scale construction enterprises in my country have seized the opportunities brought by the rise of digital technology and have achieved certain results in promoting the deep integration of digital technology and industry.

In the modernization park of the construction industry of Shanxi Construction Investment Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Shanxi Construction Investment"), the steel structure box beam production line is running in an orderly manner in the fabricated steel structure component production workshop; besides, intelligent robots are operating accurately ; On the visual BIM integrated manufacturing management platform, the staff can realize the digital management of the whole process of steel structure manufacturing with a single click of the mouse... "We have realized the'one-click' processing from raw materials to finished assembled parts." According to Zhang Taiqing, chief engineer of Shanxi Construction Investment, in recent years, Shanxi Construction Investment has used digital technology and industrial integration as the starting point to promote the construction of "smart factories and digital workshops" and promote the rapid development of enterprise intelligent manufacturing with remarkable results. "The intelligent welding cloud management system can track the whole process of single-machine welding. The intelligent blanking system can realize the information management of raw materials, unmanned blanking management, and visualized management of the cutting process, reducing human operation errors and improving work efficiency."

"Zhongtian began to explore digital construction in 2019, and carried out the integration and innovation of traditional construction mode, BIM technology, Internet of Things and other digital technologies." Liu Yutao said that such integration innovation involves underlying data architecture, coding standards, data interfaces, etc. A series of basic research and development, has formed and released a design collaboration platform based on BIM technology, a smart building operation and maintenance platform, a smart community integration platform, and a smart pipe network operation and maintenance management platform, which can realize data flow to drive business flow and material flow Operation and maintenance of digital twins of, capital flow and management flow. "In the future, Zhongtian will form an enterprise-level digital platform through the standardization of data interfaces, and combine the big data platform to achieve enterprise data center, artificial intelligence analysis, decision-making assistance and operation." Liu Yutao said.

Digitalization reshapes the structure of the construction industry chain

Construction industry "upgrade competition" is in full swing

The digital economy has become the core engine for accelerating the digital transformation of the construction industry, and has had a profound impact on the penetration and integration of the entire value chain of the construction industry. "The'rules of the game' in the construction market are changing, and traditional construction companies are facing new challenges." According to Chen Zhiliang, deputy general manager of Gansu Construction Investment (Holding) Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Gansu Construction Investment"), digitalization is Accelerate the reshaping of the structure of the construction industry chain. For construction companies, only by making better use of digital technology to improve R&D and production efficiency, and improve management capabilities on the basis of maintaining traditional advantages, can they break through and take off.

"The direction of technological innovation has undergone a fundamental change." Ye Ming emphasized that in the context of the rapid development of digital technology, the competition mode among enterprises is changing, and enterprise technological innovation often presents a chain and network form. Based on technological innovation, enterprise competition exceeds the capability boundary of a single enterprise, and the direction of technological innovation is increasingly reflected in the competition between technological standards and technological platforms. This trend has been clearly reflected in the transformation strategies of large construction companies.

Take Gansu Construction Investment as an example. This construction enterprise integrating investment and development, engineering construction, and operation management has established a technology development company to research and develop an "intelligent construction management and control platform based on building informatization" to promote digitalization and construction. Deep integration of business chains. "The rise of digital technology will bring about three obvious changes." Chen Zhiliang believes, "One is to accelerate the technological innovation of enterprises to the development of new building industrialization; the other is to drive the technological innovation of enterprises to improve business management by digital means. Capacity development; third, it will surely lead the company’s technological innovation to the transformation and upgrading of the entire project.” Based on this, Gansu Construction Investment actively promotes digital technologies such as BIM technology, smart construction, smart construction sites, smart parks, and smart building management systems. Technology is widely used in engineering projects, injecting new strong impetus into the high-quality development of enterprises.

The digital transformation of construction enterprises is essentially an "upgrade competition". Whoever can efficiently transform the value of digital technology into competitiveness will have the upper hand. "We have established a BIM/CIM application innovation studio to build a smart city big data center, develop a unified basic platform for a smart city, build a smart management system, and realize the entire process of project construction informatization management and digital intelligence applications." Zhang Taiqing said , Shanxi Construction Investment is actively creating a new business card of "Digital Intelligent Construction, Green Development", continuously expanding the brand effect of "Jiang Investment Intelligent Manufacturing", and taking the innovative application of digital technology as the traction, exploring new business formats in multiple dimensions and multiple aspects, and promoting digital transformation. Develop in depth. This will also be the inevitable choice for the transformation and upgrading of construction enterprises in the future.

The "starting gun" has started, and the "competition" has been launched across the industry. The construction companies that have stepped into the "new track" have waved goodbye to the extensive development model and are striving for a new future of high-quality development.