DigiPLACE is an EU-funded project running from September 2019 until May 2021. The project consortium is developing a feasibility study for the development of a European Industrial Digital Construction Platform in order to modernise the European Construction industry and ensure its global competitiveness in the 21st century.
The DigiPLACE project is addressing these issues by creating a European state-of-the-art analysis, examining how digitalised the construction industry already is, what works for whom and what not, what are the barriers, etc. The team also identified existing digital platforms inside and outside the construction sector and produced a comparative analysis. At the moment the consortium is undertaking an impact analysis of digital technologies in the construction industry for identification of possible points of knowledge transfer.
The project has just completed the first year of activities, coping with the current situation by replacing the physical meetings and workshops with online sessions.
During the online workshop ‘Identifying DigiPLACE key use cases and high-level specifications’, five working groups were set up to develop each of the five identified areas as it follows:
1) common language, interoperability, standards;
2) regulations, public services;
3) data and knowledge sharing;
4) environmental performance;
5) business, market and collaboration.
The 5 sessions involved the project partners, as well as members of the Advisory Board and of the Community of Stakeholders. The discussions have been oriented in order to bring out the main trends and priorities to consider, and to identify possible points of disagreement and caveats to avoid.
Based on the results of the working groups, the next steps of the project partners are to provide a structured and synthetic vision of each area, while at the same time bringing out the key use cases to be supported by the DigiPLACE Reference Architecture Framework. Once this work is completed, the community of stakeholders should be involved in a broader consultation, aiming to collect reactions on this first consolidated vision.
The project team also organised a workshop in Tallinn as a pre-event of the WDBE - the World Summit of Digital Built Environment (watch the recorded session here:). Furthermore, consortium partner ACE - Architects’ Council of Europe will run the BuildUP webinar “Are architects ready for the digitalisation?” on 15 September, registration is still open - click here..
DigiPLACE relies on a relevant consortium, composed of an unprecedented collaboration between EU construction industry and professional representatives, academic partners and the support of three countries’ public authorities. Furthermore, this project is the first ever targeting the digital transformation of the construction industry to receive EU funding from Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CONNECT).
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