By John McManus | Builder
Will builders say of 2018–and all the hype around offsite factory construction processes we’ve been hearing for the past 12 months–“we’ve seen this movie before?”
Will promises that machine learning, 5G data, robotics, and other automated processes will empower builders to pivot—both as individual firms and as a business sector–into a long-imagined era of greater productivity and a vastly expanded potential customer universe prove to be idle?
Will the complexity of building’s crisscross clash of interests, forces, standards, and practitioners revert construction’s macro economy, practice, and processes to a low productivity mean of legacy, even after all the talk that profound change has finally begun?
Will economic and trade uncertainties, fear, and doubt that’s surfacing at a global level trigger a broad retreat among big and little building stakeholders, or will players turn the tides, and leverage new-found productivity drivers, to rekindle opportunity in the near-term future?
