There is no secret recipe for guaranteeing positive outcomes in the construction business, but there is an ingredient that more and more successful projects have in common: data-driven collaboration around a 3D model.
Construction is a complex business characterized by multiple interdependent processes, contributions from experts in different fields, and evolving demands from project owners. Achieving a successful outcome requires excellence all the way from the design phase to on-site execution. Getting it right means money in the bank and a solid reference that brings in more projects down the line. Getting it wrong can mean making a loss, or even going out of business entirely…
Against this risky background and with so many actors involved, communication is of fundamental importance. This is a given. But whereas communication is about sharing separate plans in order to stay on the same page, collaboration is about actually creating the plan together right from the start.
So how should this collaboration between project participants begin?
As with so much of the modern construction process – or any modern business for that matter – the answer lies in the use of data. In the construction business, creating a data-accurate 3D model that all the project participants can work from and contribute towards is a sure way to bridge the gap between design intent and constructability.
