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Could you be the next construction tech influencer?

FutureX Digital Disruptors

Going big is the best way to gain value from your people and technology investments – so it’s time to showcase your achievements and tell your success stories together with other industry tech influencers.

The future belongs to those who embrace construction tech to unlock efficiency, pioneer innovation and drive growth. But maximising true value from technology is a marathon, not a sprint. Which is why at Futurebuild we have a new look to our FutureX stage, where we will be offering a content programme led by digital influencers and disrupters – industry leaders who are changing trajectories by reshaping critical functions and ultimately driving industry-wide digital transformation.

Businesses within the AEC sector are becoming increasingly more aware of how digitalisation is changing other industries and want to keep up with new digital developments. Clients and tech users want better services and trustworthy information. With projects becoming more demanding and more complex, resulting in manual processes no longer being sufficient, it’s time to shine a light on how digital can not only bring efficiencies in time, cost and materials, but in the overall value and return on investment for projects.

The FutureX Digital Disruptors Stage has been designed to helped companies define their vision and lay out strategies and roadmaps for their digital transformations. Communication is essential to initiate changes in how companies and people digitally behave. Therefore this FutureX area is a platform for story telling, both on and off stage. 

The true value of digital lies in end-to-end transformation.  Digital supports every stage of a business strategy and can achieve real-world results by thinking big, yet keeping a clear focus on value that goes beyond productivity. 

But achieving this level of transformation requires more than adopting new tools. It demands a commitment to behavioural change, a people-centric focus, and sustained investment in foundational capabilities.

For most companies going digital requires a shift away from traditional thinking and a move towards collaborative, innovative and future thinking, and for some, taking an experimental approach.

These new ways of working can reveal new solutions which, in turn, can improve customer experience, drive upskilling internally and spur company growth at all levels.

At Futurebuild, we present the opportunities to truly understand what a digital transformation process looks like and how it can be achieved to make a positive impact through actions, not just words.

What you can expect on stage

nima (formerly the UK BIM Alliance) is the UK’s hub for all things information management within the built and managed environment, and at Futurebuild, nima will be launching new features of the Information Management Initiative (IMI) – an industry-led and government-supported programme to transform information management practices across the AEC industry.

Delivered in collaboration with Construction Leadership Council (CLC) and AtkinsRealis the IMI will be a game changer for the way information is managed sector wide.

Also new and exclusively at Futurebuild, the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) will launch the new version of its Client Guide which offers practical steps and value-based outcomes for digital transformation of your estate/built assets.

And any talk about what’s new can not exclude Artificial Intelligence (AI). Women in BIM (WIB) will be discussing AI from an international perspective with speakers from Sweden, Germany, Romonia and Spain.

In an era defined by technological innovation, the construction industry has embraced AI as a powerful tool that is reshaping the landscape of building and infrastructure development. AI, once a futuristic concept, has now become an integral part of construction processes, offering efficiency, precision and innovation. WIB will look at what AI has achieved so far and what comes next.

Other big names on stage to look out for are from AECOM, Arup, British Land, Fosters & Partners, Grimshaw, Mott MacDonald, Morgan Sindall, National Grid, Sweco and WSP.

Strategy Consultant and Sustainability Advisor at Arup, Sakshi Bansal will be discussing her views on the concept of ESG and how the global energy transition is moving away from a linear economy and embracing a circular one.

Director of Decarbonisation and Innovation for Building Structures at WSP, Diego Padilla-Philipps will present on new ways of optimising design with AI and how we must acknowledge AI’s potential, not as an independent entity but as a conduit for growth.

Chief Value Officer at Cohesive and former Head of BIM at the UK Cabinet Office, David Philp will be looking at how digital and technology are fast tracking solutions to meeting net zero targets.

In addition, sometimes the only way forward is to look back, not everyone is ready for a full digital transformation and understanding the basics is a great place to start, which is why this stage is offering a series of Digital 101 talks, one of which will be delivered by Mark Enzer OBE, Strategic Advisor at Mott MacDonald and former Head of the National Digital Twin Programme.

And at the top of his game, with his acclaimed research into a passport to a circular future, Allies & Morrison’s Head of Design Technology, Ciaran Garrick will be presenting on his reach and discussing what digital tools are needed to drive a circular economy and how to repurpose existing materials.

Making an impact off stage

With equal excitement and knowledge share available off stage, visitors are preparing for new thinking, new innovations and how to better understand the benefits of construction tech.

The AI-powered software platform, OneClick LCA will be demonstrating how it decarbonises and drives sustainability across the construction value chain with scientific, easy-to-use, automated life-cycle assessment (LCA) that reduce the environmental impacts of building, infrastructure, and renovation projects and products.

Plus witness other live demonstrations and use cases from construction procurement specialists Procurepro, 3D product development centre nCircle and green emergy and smart building experts Planarific.

Technology and transformation consultancies, including Emixa, GS1 UK and Utilize will also be ready to discuss first steps, next steps and deep dives into the future of digital construciton. As well as innovations on display from new sustianable building materials from Natural Building Systems.

And if that’s not enough, you can talk all day to the British Standards Institution (BSI) about technical standards, its certification process and other services to businesses and government across the AEC sector.

To find out more about being part of the FutureX Digital Disrupters Stage and showcasing your products or services that are making a big impact on the digitalisation of the built environment, contact grant.elrick@futurebuild.co.uk

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