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Why Modular Building Hasn’t Revolutionized Construction

Harvard Business Review

The allure of building indoors in a controlled environment instead of in the mud, muck, and maelstrom of a conventional site has made prefabrication a strong candidate for the future of construction for architects, engineers, and construction futurists.

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Constructing the innovation mandate

Paul Hobcraft

We will focus on both incremental and distinctive innovation outcomes and ones that have the potential for disruptive or breakthrough innovation, that are exploring new technologies, markets, and new business models to drive growth and create value.

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Can the Construction Industry Be Disrupted?

Harvard Business Review

Construction is often maligned as the industry that technology left behind. Industry observers routinely deride the lack of technological sophistication in the construction industry, and have pigeon-holed it as old-fashioned and lagging behind more forward-looking and purposeful industries such as manufacturing.

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Phasing the Energy Transition by Technology and Horizon Management

Paul Hobcraft

For this to happen, our focus today should be fully on low-carbon technologies and their technical realization. Transformative innovation from technologies has yet to fully emerge. Extending Mature and Established Technologies, 2. Those technologies in fundamental research or yet to be proven beyond the lab or small pilot scale.

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Silicon Valley’s Next Target: Disrupt the Construction and Real Estate Industries

Leapfrogging

Construction Tech’ and ‘Real Estate Tech’ are the next greenfield market spaces. Companies that think they’re immune to the trends and technologies upending every industry on the planet risk the same thing: obsolescence. The construction industry builds houses, strip malls and office complexes.

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Digital Transformation: Rebuilding an Outdated Construction Industry

Cascade Strategy

It’s no secret that the engineering and construction industry is a major powerhouse of the global economy. Representing 13% of the total global GDP , the construction industry is under constant pressure to innovate, become more efficient, and address cost pressures.

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Constructing the Future for Urban Development and Energy Efficient Homes

eZassi

Architects of today are tasked to design new buildings with emerging, energy efficient technology for the practical structures of tomorrow while maintaining beautiful and intriguing design elements. Look to Switzerland for the Next Evolution in Sustainable Building Technology. That’s great design for the future. Let’s Talk.