EU is giving support for digital transformation

摘要

Digitalisation is talked about every day in FIEC at the moment, and it relates to all our other lobbying work, while our recent joint industry manifesto set out what we need in the construction sector, to support the transformation to digital construction. Two of FIEC's requests appear to be have been partially met by a recent proposal for the Digital Europe programme, which sets out action in several key areas for the period 2021 to 2027. To cope with the vast amount of data that needs to be processed and exchanged, not only for building information modelling (BIM), but also to support artificial intelligence (AI) and digital processes in construction, massive computing power is required. Super computers, quantum computing - whatever term is chosen, all of these refer to a new age of information technology. Calculations will be faster and the volume of data that can be processed is mind blowing - a billion billion calculations per second.