Building Design + Construction - October 2019

42 |BUILDING DESIGN+CONSTRUCTION | October 2019

CHART 3A. THE ARCHITECTS

• Improved project team coordination/collaboration .......80.00%


• Improved client relations/vision meetings .................63.08%


• Automates mundane tasks ...................................41.54%


• Increased the quality of our work (QA/QC) .................36.92%


• Increased the speed of work .................................33.85%


• Identifying errors, omissions, and opportunities
  for improvement ................................................33.85%


• Helps our fi rm win more work ................................26.15%


• Allows us to design and build projects that otherwise
  would not be possible .........................................13.85%


• Identifying/eliminating wasteful processes ................10.77%


• Increased profi tability.......................................... .7.69%
  Base: 65

Improved project team coordination/collaboration....................... 80.0%

Improved client relations/vision meetings............................... 43.8%

Increased the quality of our work (QA/QC).............................. 40.8%

Increased the speed of work............................................. 40.0%

Automates mundane tasks.............................................. 38.5%

Identifying errors, omissions, and opportunities for improvement........ 33.1%

Helps our fi rm win more work............................................ 24.6%

Identifying/eliminating wasteful processes.............................. 17.7%

Increased profi tability.................................................... 9.2%

Allows us to design and build projects that otherwise would not be possible... 9.2%

Base: 130

CHART 3C. THE CONTRACTORS

• Improved project team coordination/collaboration .....79.41%


• Identifying errors, omissions, and opportunities
  for improvement.............................................. .47.06%


• Increased the quality of our work (QA/QC) ...............44.12%


• Increased the speed of work ................................38.24%


• Automates mundane tasks ..................................38.24%


• Identifying/eliminating wasteful processes ...............32.35%


• Improved client relations/vision meetings ................23.53%


• Helps our fi rm win more work ..............................23.53%


• Increased profi tability .........................................5.88%


• Allows us to design and build projects that otherwise
  would not be possible .........................................5.88%
  Base: 34

CHART 3B. THE ENGINEERS

• Improved project team coordination/collaboration .....79.17%


• Increased the speed of work ................................50.00%


• Increased the quality of our work (QA/QC) ...............45.83%


• Automates mundane tasks ..................................33.33%


• Improved client relations/vision meetings ................25.00%


• Helps our fi rm win more work ..............................20.83%


• Increased profi tability ........................................20.83%


• Identifying/eliminating wasteful processes ...............16.67%


• Identifying errors, omissions, and opportunities
  for improvement.............................................. .12.50%


• Allows us to design and build projects that otherwise
  would not be possible .........................................4.17%
  Base: 24

When asked to select

their top three busi-

ness impacts from

successful tech initia-

tives, respondents

most often cited

“improved project

team coordination/

collaboration” and

“improved client

relations/vision meet-

ings.” However, the

responses varied by

discipline, as shown

in charts 3A – 3C.

CHART 3.TOP BUSINESS IMPACTS OF AEC TECHNOLOGY(top 3 selected)

CHART 1. PRIMARY ROLE OF FIRM

Base: 130

Architecture

fi rm

50.0%

Engineering

fi r m

18.5%

General

contractor/

construction

manager

26.2%

Base: 130

Other

5.3%

CHART 2. AEC TECH ADOPTION RATE

VS. COMPETITORS

Signifi cantly

ahead of direct

competitors

3.1%

Somewhat

ahead

of direct

competitors

39.2%

On par

with direct

competitors

41.5%

Somewhat

behind direct

competitors

15.4%

Signifi cantly

behind direct

competitors

0.8%

EXCLUSIVE RESEARCH^ |

Source: 2019 Giants 300 Technology and Innovation Survey

The AEC Giants are feeling good about their progress in adopting advanced

AEC tech tools and processes when compared with their competitors. Nearly

half (42.3%) said they are either “signifi cantly ahead” or “somewhat ahead”

of the competition, while 41.5% said they are “on par” with competitors.

Half of the 130 fi rms that responded to the 2019 Giants 300 Technology

and Innovation Study are architecture or architecture/engineering (AE)

fi rms. General contractors and construction managers make up about a

quarter of the responding fi rms. “Other” includes a design-build fi rm.

Source: 2019 Giants 300 Technology and Innovation Survey Source: 2019 Giants 300 Technology and Innovation Survey