Throughout the COVID-19 crisis, the construction industry has played a vital role, responding to urgent requests such as building hospitals in a few days or donating lifesaving equipment. But the industry has also been badly affected: many construction sites have shut down and supply chains have been disrupted. Like many other sectors, construction had to adapt quickly by taking care of employees and enabling remote ways of working, rebalancing supply chains, and managing cash even more carefully.
Being one of the least digitalized sectors, the construction industry has already started accelerating the digital transformation adoption, significantly increasing productivity, alleviating the need for experienced workers and attracting millennials, and enabling risk-sharing through integrated project delivery and connected supply chains. Manufacturing best practices, such as cost and quality controls, modular construction, and prefabrication, have started to make their way into the construction sector, with some construction sites becoming “open sky assembly lines.”
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