Project description
Building the construction sectors' digital future
The construction sector is a key driver for the economy, but it is one of the poorest performers in terms of productivity and innovation. It has yet to embrace digital innovations that could help improve productivity and profitability. The digitalisation of the construction sector could be a potential game changer for the sector. The EU-funded DigiPLACE will create a common ecosystem of innovation, standardisation and commerce to increase the construction sector’s productivity and end products’ quality in terms of buildings and infrastructure. It will also investigate what kind of digital transformation will improve productivity and efficiency. The project’s results will impact the development and competitiveness of the construction value chain.
Objective
In modern economy, digitalization is a major driver of productivity growth across industries and services. However, the construction sector is lagging behind, even behind agriculture.
The construction sector is characterised by a high presence of SMEs, low capitalization, a low rate of higher educated employees, low investment in innovation, and a long supply chain. Moreover, in the EU market, different languages, taxation, and regulatory frameworks are obstacles to Union synergies. DigiPLACE will exploit EU added value.
Several initiatives have been developed at national level to improve the innovation in this sector. At EU level, some projects were devoted to facilitating the exchange of information, practice and knowledge (e.g. CPR 305/2011 and Levels). DigiPLACE will create a common ecosystem of innovation, standardization and commerce with the aim to collect the achieved results and to increase the productivity of the sector and the quality of its end products (building&infrastructure).
Could digitalization help the sector to solve these historical issues and future ones? What kind of digitalization, what kind of market, what kind of production and supply-chain we could imagine? What kind of consumers do we have for our products and services. How do these worlds work together?
DigiPLACE aims to investigate all these themes with a strong analysis of markets, actors and barriers. It will define a Reference Architecture Framework (RAF) for digital construction platform based on an EU-wide consensus involving a large community of stakeholders and the expertise of selected key players, resulting in a strategic roadmap for successful implementation of this RAF.
DigiPLACE will rely on a large set of partners, linked 3rd parties and an Advisory Board representing leading European entities, companies and/or associations of industry, builders, owners (private and public), architects, research institutes, and ICT firms (for digital production, services and knowledge).
Fields of science
- social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicsproduction economicsproductivity
- social sciencessociologygovernancetaxation
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystems
- agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesagriculture
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementcommerce
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20133 Milano
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Participants (25)
77420 Champs Sur Marne
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1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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2595 DA Den Haag
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02150 Espoo
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20009 DONOSTIA-SAN SEBASTIAN (GIPUZKOA)
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4362 Esch Sur Alzette
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7491 Trondheim
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CF24 0DE Cardiff
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28108 Alcobendas - (Madrid)
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1050 Bruxelles / Brussel
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CB25 9AU Cambridge
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1030 Bruxelles / Brussel
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1040 Bruxelles / Brussel
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1210 Saint Josse Ten Node
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1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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1000 Ljubljana
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00161 Roma
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1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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1170 Bruxelles / Brussel
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92055 Paris
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69500 Bron
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00161 Roma
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10115 Berlin
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3981 AZ Bunnik
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00161 Roma
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