The use of data and AI to identify opportunities in construction project slow downs and restarts

包括承包、产品制造和专业服务在内的建筑业在2016年的营业额约为3700亿GB，为英国经济增加了1380亿GB的价值--占总价值的9%--出口了超过80亿GB的产品和服务。然而，该行业的潜力一直被历史上低于整体经济的生产率所抑制--自1975年以来平均低了21%。英国有6000亿英镑的基础设施项目，建筑业对英国经济的进步做出了至关重要的贡献。新冠肺炎的影响导致该行业急剧放缓，项目要么放缓，要么完全关闭。这些项目中的绝大多数将很快恢复正常。放慢和重新启动建设项目的紧张局势隐约存在于运营的复杂性中，包括供应链的影响。绝大多数项目极有可能会对其最终成本、进度和效益产生重大影响。该项目将使用英国整个建筑业的数据来确定项目中的机会领域，以便尽可能无缝地完成减速和重新启动。该项目将帮助识别拟议计划中的风险，将它们暴露给项目团队，并帮助根据其队列对每个项目进行基准测试，以衡量竞争力或抗脆弱性。假设将在项目过程中得到充分的测试和验证，以确保开发的产品为利益相关者和客户提供可持续的解决方案。

The construction sector, encompassing contracting, product manufacturing and professional services, had a turnover of around £370 billion in 2016, adding £138 billion in value to the UK economy -- 9% of the total -- and exported over £8 billion of products and services.However, the potential of the sector has been held back by productivity that is historically below than the wider economy -- an average of 21% lower, since 1975. With a pipeline of £600 billion in infrastructure projects, construction makes a critical contribution to the progress of the UK economy.Impacts as a result of COVID-19 have resulted in a dramatic slowdown to the industry with projects either slowing down or shutting down entirely. A vast majority of these projects will soon be expected to resume to normality.The tension of slowing down and restarting a construction project looms within the complexity of the operation, including effects of the supply chain. It is highly likely that a vast majority of projects will incur significant impacts to their final cost, schedule and benefits case.This project will use data from across the UK's construction industry to identify areas of opportunity within projects, to enable slow downs and restarts to be done as seamlessly as possible. The project will help identify risks in proposed plans, expose them to the project team and help benchmark each project against its cohort, to gauge competitiveness or antifragility. Hypotheses will be fully tested and validated during the course of the project, to ensure that the product developed provides sustainable solutions for stakeholders and customers.