And given that the constant in every project is uncertainty and change, it must always allow for multiple variables, both known and unknown..
Currently Professor of Construction Management at The Bartlett, UCL, Glass has spent over twenty years in roles spanning academia, industry, government and its associated bodies.She’s looked at construction through more lenses than most, and her ability to act as a conduit between practice, policy and the scholarly world is particularly valuable at this critical moment.
As the construction eco-system leans into change and innovation, we’ll foster dramatic improvements to productivity, quality, safety and sustainability, creating a better built environment for ourselves and future generations.The path to our goal involves extensive research, a commitment to nailing down nomenclature and standards, and the creation of a home for digital technologies and the young workers who will help us to drive the industry forwards.The process deserves both our commitment and excitement.. Driving innovation through Transforming Construction Network Plus (N+).
Since 2018, Professor Glass has served as Director of Transforming Construction Network Plus.TCN+ is part of the UK Research and Innovation’s (UKRI) Transforming Construction Challenge, along with The Construction Innovation Hub, The Active Building Centre, and a raft of other UK based projects involving academic and industry stakeholders.
TCN+ is focused on shaping the future of construction by tackling problems that have plagued the industry for years: how to take advantage of digital opportunities, solve productivity issues, move to a manufacturing mindset, and cut carbon through energy efficient buildings.. Over the last few years, TCN+ has invested over £1 million pounds of funding into 14 innovative research projects.
From digital twin initiatives to the evaluation of business models, the projects look to inform future practice and policy., much of which was underpinned by a continuous flow of data across the design, manufacturing, assembly and operation phases.
The ability of a classification system like Uniclass (or some future version of it) to allow data aggregation at all scales from complexes to products and everything in between, will be exactly what is needed to allow the future state I described, and I believe it will be a key way in which we will navigate the marketplace;.Gemini Principles.
’ set out by the Cambridge Centre for Digital Built Britain state that ‘Greater data sharing could release an additional £7bn per year of benefits across the UK infrastructure sectors’.However, to realise these benefits we will have to use a consistent way to describe assets, as was done in ‘Defining the Need’.. ‘Digital Tools’.