The Digital Construction on a Shoestring Project is derived from Digital Manufacturing on a Shoestring. The project focuses on breaking down the barriers in digital construction, such as cost and complexity, by developing individual digital solutions for which the total cost of deployment is kept low. The programme centres around the Manufacturing and Construction phase of the RIBA Plan of Work including suppliers and off-site construction SMEs, and on-site construction SMEs to increase digital capabilities across all the construction sector’s SMEs and thus ensure the entire sector can benefit.

The project follows the Digital Shoestring Approach to identify digitalisation priorities of construction SMEs and supports incremental adoption of individual digital shoestring construction solutions which can be integrated iteratively. The solutions are designed and developed based on a simple structured procedure and deployed to companies by following step-by-step instructions. The project has so far identified the top ten priority digital solutions required by suppliers and off-site, and on-site construction SMEs through a set of digital requirements workshops.

For further information please visit the research profile and blog post about the project.

People

Prof. Duncan McFarlane

Dr. Gökçen Yilmaz

Liz Salter

Jan Kaiser