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Automation tends to polarise opinions: either it鈥檚 the great saviour of construction or the rise of the machines threatens to de-skill professionals
Automation could create a skills mismatch if we don鈥檛 adapt
The UK economy鈥檚 productivity problem is a headache for politicians. According to the Office for National Statistics, the average US, French or German worker produces more by Thursday afternoon than the average British worker does in a week.
There is lots of talk about 鈥渋nnovation maturity鈥, where some sectors that encountered high levels of productivity growth pre-2008 have now plateaued. But construction is clearly not one of those sectors that has gone through any form of a productivity or innovation phase and still represents low-hanging fruit for the application of technology and process improvement. Digital automation and augmentation of our industry鈥檚 current proliferation of labour-intensive, low-efficiency processes are now in the cross-hairs of tech start-ups, investors and entrepreneurs who rightly smell an opportunity.
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