Transforming construction SME digitisation adoption via Building Process Model Builder

通过建筑流程模型生成器转变建筑中小企业数字化采用

• 批准号: 82331
• 金额: $ 12.53万
• 依托单位: HBXL GROUP LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=82331
• 关键词: Transforming; construction; SME; digitisation; adoption

**Backdrop:**UK building firms have been directly impacted by Covid-19, with their workloads and management teams disrupted along with increasing costs due to materials/labour inflation and Covid-Secure measures.Concurrently Government is pressing the industry to;1. increase production of new sustainable houses and extensions2. improve the thermal performance of existing homes3. enhance productivity assisted by construction digitisation.**Problem:**Every year hundreds of thousands of houses, extensions and small industrial projects are commissioned by clients from Architects/designers prepared on CAD, 3D modelling systems, or by hand. Similarly SME Housing Developers and Design & Build firms (including Offsite Manufacturers) draft significant volumes of plans in-house.For Architects/designers the priority is to generate designs creatively and cost effectively given the project value is often quite low, charging modest fees. It is also important that the project can be built within the client's budget. The provision therefore of an accurate cost estimate generated direct from the plan would be advantageous rather than using rule-of-thumb or estimated separately.Housing Developers and Design & Builders have similar initial challenges, but they also then have to manage the entire delivery of the project on budget, on time.For all users/clients, it is important to explore sustainable fully-costed options. However, with current, often disparate non-integrated systems, this can be prohibitively expensive as creating multiple drawings/specifications/estimates in different software is time-consuming.What is needed, is a toolset to quickly generate plans and 3D models of multiple fully-costed project options, instantly ascertaining all labour and materials with a detailed project plan, reflecting the content of the work and, for constructors, their own resources, including all process management and documentation to efficiently construct the building.**Solution:**The solution to this challenge is HBXL's proposed **Building Process Model (BPM) Builder**, front-ending HBXL's existing software with brand new, fully-customisable parametric templates to rapidly produce 2D working drawings, 3D models and complete construction datasets for houses and extensions.These parametric templates can be Lego-blocked together to create an infinite array of fully digitised projects in minutes, not only providing the raw information (drawings, labour, plant and materials schedules) to construct the project, but also all process management information including Building Regulation documentation, estimates, Gantt chart, task management tools and Covid-19 health and safety documentation).Using the BPM, users can easily optioneer low embodied carbon/energy, low impact, restorative and regenerative environmental approaches comparing speed-of-delivery and overall costs.The resulting output can then be shared amongst and utilised by the entire project team in HBXL's soon-to-be-released Construction Cloud management software.**Why fund this innovative project?**This innovative project addresses Government's twin goals of the ISCF Construction Sector to digitise the construction industry and deliver more sustainable buildings.The Building Process Model Builders timely approach automatically digitises the entire construction process direct from plans in minutes, saving days of work over the life of each project. Project outcomes have the potential to transform the way digitally-excluded less tech-savvy, time-pressured SMEs engage digitally, delivering incredibly easy-to-use tools, saving large amounts of time, simultaneously improving delivery speed, quality and sustainability.

**背景：**英国建筑公司直接受到新冠肺炎的影响，他们的工作量和管理团队受到干扰，同时材料/劳动力通胀和防寒措施导致成本上升。与此同时，政府正在向该行业施压：1.增加新的可持续房屋和扩建项目的生产。改善现有住宅的热性能3。通过建筑数字化提高生产率。**问题：**每年都有数十万栋房屋、扩建工程和小型工业项目由建筑师/设计师委托进行CAD、3D建模系统或手工制作。同样，中小型房屋开发商和设计和建造公司(包括非现场制造商)在内部起草大量的计划。对于建筑师/设计师来说，由于项目价值往往很低，收取适中的费用，因此优先考虑创造性和成本效益的设计。同样重要的是，该项目可以在客户的预算内建造。因此，提供由计划直接生成的准确成本估计将是有利的，而不是分别使用经验法则或估计。住房开发商和设计与建筑商面临类似的初始挑战，但他们还必须按时管理项目的整个预算交付。对于所有用户/客户来说，探索可持续的完全成本计算方案是重要的。然而，对于当前通常完全不同的非集成系统，这可能是令人望而却步的昂贵，因为在不同的软件中创建多个图纸/规范/估计是耗时的。需要一个工具集来快速生成多个全成本项目选项的计划和3D模型，立即确定所有劳动力和材料以及详细的项目计划，反映工作内容，并对施工人员来说，他们自己的资源，包括所有流程管理和文档，以有效地建造建筑。**解决方案：**此挑战的解决方案是HBXL提出的**建筑过程模型(BPM)构建器**，HBXL现有的前端软件具有全新的、完全可定制的参数模板，可以快速生成房屋和扩建项目的2D施工图、3D模型和完整的施工数据集。这些参数模板可以被乐高拼接在一起，在几分钟内创建无限多个完全数字化的项目，不仅提供建设项目所需的原始信息(图纸、劳动力、工厂和材料时间表)，而且还提供所有过程管理信息，包括建筑法规文档、概算、甘特图、任务管理工具和新冠肺炎健康与安全文档)。使用BPM，用户可以轻松地选择更低体现的碳/能源、低影响、恢复性和再生性环境方法比较交付速度和总成本。所产生的成果可以在HBXL即将发布的Construction Cloud管理软件中由整个项目团队共享和利用。**为什么要资助这个创新项目？**这个创新项目满足了政府对ISCF建筑业的双重目标，即建筑业数字化和提供更可持续的建筑。建筑过程模型构建器即时方法可以在几分钟内自动将整个施工过程从计划中数字化，在每个项目的生命周期中节省工作日。项目成果有可能改变被数字排除在外、不那么精通技术、时间紧迫的中小企业参与数字活动的方式，提供令人难以置信的易于使用的工具，节省大量时间，同时提高交付速度、质量和可持续性。