Dr. Robert Yuan, President of Glodon: “Digital Building” Will Lead the Development of the Industry to Drive the Construction Industry’s Transformation and Upgrading

May 28, www. chinanews.com, Guizhou News (Reporter Yang Qian)   During the China International Big Data Industry Expo 2021 (hereinafter referred to as the Big Data Expo), the "Foresee the Future" Public Resource Trading Big Data Forum 2021 was also opened.

As one of the key professional forums of the Big Data Expo 2021, this forum is co-sponsored by the State Information Center, Guizhou Public Resource Trading Center, Beijing Economic Information Center and other organizations, and co-organized by Glodon Company Limited and Guizhou-Cloud Big Data Industry Development Co., Ltd.

Dr. Robert Yuan, President of Glodon Company Limited delivered a keynote speech titled "Information Technology Leads Industrial Digital Transformation and Drives Industry Upgrading", providing an in-depth analysis of the digital economy era and explaining how companies and industries can use BIM and cloud computing, big data, IoT, mobile Internet, AI and other information technologies to lead the industrial strategy of transformation and upgrading.

Dr. Robert Yuan also shared Glodon's concept of "Digital Building".

What is "Digital Building"? What changes will it bring to the construction industry? How can it be integrated with enterprise and project management? Dr. Robert Yuan pointed out that digital building is an industrial strategy taking advantage of BIM and information technology such as cloud computing, big data, IoT, mobile Internet and AI to lead industrial transformation and upgrading, combining advanced lean construction theories and methods to integrate people, processes, data, technology and business systems to obtain digital, online and intelligent processes, elements and participants in construction, so as to build a new platform ecological system of project, enterprise and industry. This is a three-dimensional reproduction of the whole process of the construction industry, combined with industry best practices to solve industry problems in a comprehensive manner, and a process to oversee the construction industry to be more open and transparent in construction.

"Digital building", the effective integration of digital technology and the construction industry, will transform the construction industry and bring new changes.

The impact of "digital building" on the construction industry is the penetration and integration of the whole life cycle and the whole value chain. Through the full digital sample design to achieve personalized optimal solutions, and the wisdom to improve the quality of construction, we will eventually promote the construction industry to modern levels of industrialization. The era of "digital building" has come, and digitalization will certainly drive the construction industry to change and upgrade and enhance the new dividends of the industry.  

Dr. Robert Yuan explained that there are different technical supports for different building life cycles and levels of the construction industry, including digital technology and building technology, which are integrated to form a "digital building platform" to solve the problems in the construction field from the perspective of the industry and companies.

Dr. Robert Yuan also pointed out that the current demand of construction companies has undergone two major changes: First, demand for single-point informationization has changed into demand for system digitalization. Second, there is a contradiction between digital system demand and fragmented supply. Single digital technology can hardly meet the demand of digital transformation of construction company system, so the digital upgrading of companies should not only be a single system upgrade but should break the digital barrier between each system and realize the integration of the digital system. The digital transformation and upgrading of the construction industry need to be carried out at four levels: digital job operation, digital project management, digital enterprise management and digital industry governance, to realize the "Four-in-One" all-around digitalization. This requires a holistic vision, layered planning, each division of responsibility, and multi-party collaboration.    

The digital transformation of the construction industry cannot be achieved overnight; it needs to be gradual and steady, in three steps – "connection", "collaboration" and "intelligence". "Connection" is to promote collaboration, smart construction sites and project management with the help of digital technology to realize the connection of core business and obtain real-time multi-dimensional data; "collaboration" is to accumulate business algorithms through the initial application of collected data to realize multi-project collaborative management and decision analysis; "intelligence" is to assist in decision making and operation predictions through the in-depth application of data, continuously optimize the original management operations of the company and try to empower the industrial ecology.

Dr. Robert Yuan said, "Digitalization is full of opportunities. As long as there are clear strategies, explicit breakthrough points and continuous development, then results can be obtained quickly and success is certain."