MAY 2023CONSTRUCTIONBUSINESSREVIEW.COM8IN MYOPINIONIn the last 24 months there have been enormous transformations within the AEC industry and arguably across most industries, many of which have influenced and shaped business decisions made during the pandemic, you could say the pandemic has only sought to accelerate some of the transformation we had started to see. The biggest and most notable is in the area of communication and connectivity, staying connected and providing employees with the tools and platforms they need to collaborate, innovate and stay productive has been at the forefront for all companies. We've seen great technological advancements in this area with many new tools coming online or old ones getting a face lift which has enabled most employees to seamlessly transition into working from home with great ease. Whilst workers have been able to adapt to this new world with ease, we know that workers are still craving the human interaction that can't be replaced virtually. In our recent UK Workplace Survey, we found that 67 percent of employees want to return to the office for between 1-4 days a week and would prefer a hybrid of home, work, and office work.Detailed in Gensler's UK Workplace Survey 2020To aid the `return to work `strategy for ourselves and our clients, Gensler has leveraged generative algorithms to plan office occupancy, helping companies use data to bring people back to the office safely. One of those tools is called ReRun, a system that works by importing a company's existing floor plans, then overlaying social distancing bubbles that space out employees in ways that align with government health and safety requirements. The algorithm can be adjusted and updated as requirements change.Gensler has taken the approach to provide our Designers with our data-driven design tools and proprietary computational products gBlox and gFloorz that allow our world-class designers to bring deep design heritage and domain expertise powered by market-specific metrics to balance form, function and business insights during the design journey with our valued clients.Our compute-powered design solutions provide an unparalleled client experience for agile and predictable decision making. gBlox leverages client [and designer] defined metrics that are adjustable in real-time throughout the design journey, allowing our clients to study trade-offs that balance form finding with business insights on capital assets.In 2025, each connected person will have at least one data interaction every 18 seconds." --BABAK BEHESHTI, NEW YORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, IN TECHREPUBLIC49%IN 2025, NEARLY HALF OF THE WORLD'S STORED DATA WILL RESIDE IN PUBLIC CLOUD ENVIRONMENTS.10XIDC PREDICTS THAT THE WORLD'S DATA WILL GROW TENFOLD, FROM 33 ZETTABYTES (ZB) IN 2018 TO 175 ZB BY 2025.RECENT TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY By Harry Ibbs, Architect ARB Director, Design Technology Studio, Europe, GenslerHarry Ibbs
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