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ATTACK OF THE DRONES! AND OTHER

TECHNOLOGY ON THE HORIZON

Nathan WoodFounder & Chief Enabling Officer

B.S. Civil Engineering

[w/ honors]

People, Process, & Technology

IFTHEN...?

WHYHOW

“It’s more likely…that new firms with new business models and new areas of focus will leverage the financial and technological innovations that will

change the nature of competition”-Clayton Christensen, 1997

“Innovation is driven by technologies that enable the rise of disruptive business models”

-Bower and Christensen, 2000

https://experiencinginformation.wordpress.com/2012/06/03/clarifying-innovation-four-zones-of-innovation/

Jim Kalbach

Drones Augmented Reality

Drones

Laser Scanning

Augmented Reality

www.Ridley.comWIIFM = What’s In It For Me?

www.Faro.comwww.Leica.com

$250-300K $30K

Connected Jobsite

Integrated BIM

Cloud Collaboration

Advanced Planning

Prefab

Drones

Laser Scanning

Augmented Reality

Big Data

WIIFM: Integrated Project Delivery

Sutter Medical Center, Castro Valley

Credit: McClanahan Plumbing

Layout: 4X Productivity Hand layout from 2D: 75 inserts/dayBIM + Total Station: 300 Inserts/day

Credit: McClanahan Plumbing

Credit: DPR Drywall

28% Increase in Framing Productivity

50-95%Reduction

in Rework

0%

5%

10% Rework (%) By Trade

Baseline

Actual

5-28%Increase in Productivity 0%

10%

20%

30%Productivity Increase

% By Trade

Planned

Actual

BIM?IPD? Lean?

“The actual effort required was underestimated on both the design and construction sides,” says James

Mobley, a Devenney principal.

WTF?!

https://experiencinginformation.wordpress.com/2012/06/03/clarifying-innovation-four-zones-of-innovation/

Why? Just Follow the Money…

John Macomber, ASCE Report, 2003

“Follow the Money: What Really Drives Technology Innovation in Construction”

“Virtually everyone in the construction supply chain works on contracts where the incentive is to maximize their gain at the expense of others”

Time

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Current State

Desired State

RO

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Time to Adopt

30%Time to Adopt

RO

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Time to Adopt/Fail

Lost

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70% Source:John Kotter International

McKinsey & Company, “Mapping the value of employee collaboration,” August 2006UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School, Whitepaper “Maximizing Millennials in the Workforce,” 2012UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School, Whitepaper “Maximizing Millennials in the Workforce,” 2012PwC, “Millennials at Work: Reshaping the Workplace,” 2011

TOOL

PEOPLE PROCESS

Technology is just a Tool1

This Tool is only as good as

the People using It2

The People can only be as

effective as the Process allows

them to be

3

Christian, D., Bredbury, J., Emdanat, S., Haase, F., Kunz, A., Rubel, Z. and Ballard, G. (2014). “Four-phase project delivery and the pathway to perfection.” In: Proc. 22nd Ann. Conf. of the Int’l Group for Lean Construction, IGLC-22, Oslo, Norway, June 25- 27. Available at <www.iglc.net>

Does this…..

Equal this?

Fabrication Model

Design Model

Assess

Align

Advance

www.TED.com

www.StrXur.com

Adoption Failure is not a result of poor Technology…

…It’s a result of poor Communication…

…and poor Incentives.“What’s in it for Me?”

“Why Did You Do That?”

Nathan WoodFounder & Chief Enabling Officer

@nathancwood@SpectrumAEC

www.nathancwood.comwww.SpectrumAEC.com