A consortium of partners including Mace, 3D Repo, Imperial College, University College London, eviFile, and Mission Room have successfully won £1.6 million of funding in the form of a grant from Innovate UK, the UK’s innovation agency. The total project cost is £3.6 million.
It follows on from previous Innovate UK funded projects of 3D Repo, namely AEC Delta Mobility led by BuroHappold, VISUALISE led by Skanska, and i3P funded SafetiBase.
Led by Mace, a large international consultancy and construction business, the project partners have joined forces to improve productivity, quality, and performance of the UK construction sector, as part of the Transforming UK Construction: demonstrator projects funding competition. The fund is also part of a larger initiative by the UK government with a £4.7 billion increase in research and development over the next 4 years.
The team will create a solution to help UK construction be more efficient and proactive rather than reactive, with a scalable and repeatable ‘plug-and-play’ construction management and reporting platform known as the AEC Production Control Room.
Dr Jozef Dobos, founder and CEO of 3D Repo, said:
“Construction projects are infamous for delays, omissions, overruns and often spiralling costs. The AEC Production Control Rooms will allow clients, planners, site managers, and engineers to be able to track real-time project performance and take action based on insights. These stakeholders will, for the first time, be able to objectively compare what was planned versus what has been delivered.”
At a physical location within the site office, touch-enabled projectors and multiple immersive displays will present comparable project metrics such as EIR and RFI coordination, health and safety data, evidence-based task management, business intelligence, and 4D planning.
Critical project data will be made available to key stakeholders who can make better-informed decisions within the construction process early on.
