Transforming construction SME digitisation adoption via Building Process Model Builder

** 背景：** 英国建筑公司受到新冠肺炎的直接影响，由于材料/劳动力通胀和新冠肺炎安全措施，建筑公司的工作量和管理团队沿着中断，成本不断上升。与此同时，政府正在敦促该行业;1.增加新的可持续住房和扩建的生产2.改善现有房屋的热性能3.在建造业数码化的协助下提高生产力。**问题：** 每年有数十万的房屋，扩建和小型工业项目由客户委托建筑师/设计师在CAD，3D建模系统上准备或手工制作。同样，中小企业住房开发商和设计和建造公司（包括场外制造商）在内部起草大量的计划。对于建筑师/设计师来说，优先考虑的是创造性地产生设计，并具有成本效益，因为项目价值往往很低，收取适度的费用。同样重要的是，该项目可以在客户的预算内建造。因此，提供直接从计划中生成的准确成本估算将比使用经验法则或单独估算更有优势。住房开发商和设计与建造商面临类似的初始挑战，但他们也必须按时按预算管理整个项目交付。对于所有用户/客户来说，探索可持续的全成本选项非常重要。然而，对于当前的通常是完全不同的非集成系统，这可能是非常昂贵的，因为在不同的软件中创建多个图纸/规范/估计是耗时的。需要的是一个工具集，用于快速生成多个完全成本计算的项目选项的计划和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，对于施工人员，他们自己的资源，包括所有流程管理和文件，以有效地建造大楼。**解决方法：** 针对这一挑战的解决方案是HBXL提出的 **Building Process Model（BPM）Builder**，HBXL现有软件的前端，具有全新的、完全可定制的参数化模板，可快速生成房屋和扩建的2D工作图、3D模型和完整的施工数据集。这些参数化模板可以乐高积木拼在一起，在几分钟内创建无限数量的完全数字化项目，不仅提供原始信息，（图纸、劳动力、工厂和材料计划）来建设项目，而且还有所有流程管理信息，包括建筑法规文档、估算、甘特图、任务管理工具和Covid-19健康和安全文档）。使用BPM，用户可以通过比较交付速度和总体成本，轻松选择低碳/节能、低影响、可恢复和可再生的环境方法。然后，整个项目团队可以在HBXL即将发布的施工云管理软件中共享和使用结果。**为什么要资助这个创新项目？**这一创新项目实现了政府在ISCF建筑行业的双重目标，即实现建筑行业数字化，并提供更可持续的建筑。Building Process Model Builders及时方法可在几分钟内自动将整个施工过程直接从计划中数字化，从而在每个项目的生命周期内节省数天的工作。项目成果有可能改变被数字化排除在外的技术水平较低、时间压力大的中小企业参与数字化的方式，提供令人难以置信的易用工具，节省大量时间，同时提高交付速度、质量和可持续性。

**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.