Why 2019 May Be The Year of The Drone

This is the Robots Are Coming webinar that Sonsoles Alonso and I hosted in February. We talk about the future of work, the coming disruption of the job market due to automation, and how you can prepare today to ensure that you will have meaningful work for at least the next 10 years.

Despite always being deemed as a conservative industry, the construction industry is undergoing digital transformation. The demand for cost efficient building and sustainable operation are two of the main driving forces towards digitalisation of building lifecycle. In this webinar, we speak about the evolution of construction industry and the trends we can expect in the near future. What does digital transformation in the construction industry mean to investors, developers, building owners, contractors, operators and facility managers? Our experts will also be sharing how TÜV SÜD integrate technologies such as Artificial Intelligence or smart drone technology into the classic testing and inspection services.

Formwork accounts major part of the concrete budget and is one of the most labour intensive and time consuming process in concrete construction. To improve operational efficiencies and productivity, concrete industry is moving to BIM based workflows when planning formwork and managing related on-site operations.

We've had to turn down projects because we can't hire enough talent. If we had more employees, we'd be doing more business. With the construction industry facing an unprecedented labor shortage, firms are looking for unorthodox ways to attract new talent to their companies.