disrupting the aec industry
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DISRUPTING THE AEC INDUSTRY
BUILDEX YVR 2017
To make the industry relevant to the 21st Century
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DISRUPTING THE AEC INDUSTRY
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“We always overestimate the
change that will occur in the
next two years and
underestimate
the change that will occur in
the next 10.”
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SNAP SHOT:
Disrupt or be Disrupt (ed)
Forces driving Disruption
Substantially turns Circular
The Challenges Ahead
Circular Design
What Needs to Change
Ask yourself this Question
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Disrupt /dɪs̍ rʌpt/
To change the traditional way
that an industry operates,
especially in a new and effective
way.
“Disruption displaces an
existing market, industry, or
technology and produces
something new and more
efficient and worthwhile. It is at
once destructive and creative.”
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DISRUPTION OF
THE RETAIL
INDUSTRY:
Amazon don’t think like a
retailer. They think like a
technology innovation and
data company that just
happens to sell things.
Perfecting the last mile and
impact the Overall In-store
Customer Experience.
21 ways Amazon changed the face of retail
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DISRUPTION OF
THE HOSPITALITY
INDUSTRY:
Platforms connect
producers and consumers
-hosts and travelers and
facilitate their interactions
and exchange.
Rethinking value creation.
Rethinking value
consumption.
Rethinking quality control.
Rethinking scale.
How The Hotel Industry Got Blindsided ... And Why Yours Could Be Next
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INNOVATORS –
CREATING A
BETTER MOUSE
TRAP:
Apple took some of the
technology that was
perfected in the US
military and just
connected the dots to
create unique customer
experience.
They upended a
competitor within the
industry.
Why Apple, Tesla, and Uber Are Not ‘Disruptive’
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DISRUPTION WITHIN
THE INDUSTRY:
A $40 Billion company
without a single car.
Making it easy to get a ride
and to get people out of their
cars and ultimately not own a
vehicle.
Uber has just been disrupted
by the concept of driverless
cars.
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INNOVATORS – NOT
DISRUPTERS:
The Transport market in the
early 1900s did got disrupted
with the debut of the lower-
priced Ford Model T in 1908.
Tesla with an high-end product
is just a better vehicle that has
kept cars on the road. Instead
of taking them off the road.
Disruptive innovation
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DISRUPTION OF
CARGO AND
LONG DISTANCE
INDUSTRY:
Hyperloop is a new way to
move cargo and people
and things at airline speeds
for the price of a bus ticket.
Think: broadband for
transportation.
Impacting three types of
transportation.
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THE CHANGED
ECONOMY – GLOBAL
& DIGITAL:
Placing a premium on Creativity
& Innovation.
Rapid advancement of
technology & globalization.
Allows new business models to
be introduced.
At an ever-increasing rate & with
rapidly declining costs.
Disrupt or be Disrupt
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DIGITAL
DARWINISM –
SURVIVAL OF THE
FITTEST
Transformational Change,
where technology & society
evolve faster than your ability
to adapt.
No business is too big or small
to fall.
Only 71 of the companies
remain today from the 1955
Fortune 500 list.
Digital Transformation and the Race Against Digital Darwinism
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THE THIRD WAVE
OF
GLOBALIZATION:
Globalization started with
removing boundaries for
goods and then came the
Great Convergence : IT & the
People flow.
The world is now being
unshackled from its third
constraint, as labour is made
mobile by robots allowing
people to offer their services
remotely.
The third wave of globalisation may be the hardest
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THE AGE OF THE
ANTHROPOCENE IS
ON US:
The point of overshoot was
reached 7 months into the
year 2016 when humanity had
used up a full year's allotment
of natural resources such as
water, food and clean air.
Where human activities
started to have a significant
global impact on earth's
ecosystems.
The Age of the Anthropocene is on us
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CRADLE TO
CRADLE HAS GONE
MAINSTREAM:
Reusing vs just recycling.
We have to meet the growing
demand for materials without
destroying the environment.
The production of 5 steel,
cement, plastic, paper and
aluminium, accounts for nearly
half of all industrial emissions.
Sustainable Materials with both eyes open
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THE CIRCULAR
ECONOMY IS HERE:
Moving to a model of
restorative & regenerative by
Design.
Today's linear ‘take, make,
dispose’ economic model relies
on large quantities of cheap,
easily accessible materials &
energy, and is a model that is
reaching its physical limits.
Sustainable Materials with both eyes open
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THERE IS AN
URGENT NEED FOR
CHANGE:
“Four decades of international
AEC industry publications
reinforce poor communication
and information transmission;
coordination; and teamwork
issues, are the cause of
countless performance
problems on numerous
projects.” A Weippert & S. L. Kajewski
The Queensland University of Technology
AEC industry culture: a need for change
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RISK IS
TRANSFERRED
DOWNSTREAM:
AEC Industry is in the
constricted space of “passing
risk downstream" depending
solely on cost-arbitrage, and
reactive nature of the industry to
client problems.
Cost and schedule blowouts are
the norm in construction. Large
projects typically take 20%
longer to finish than scheduled
and are up to 60-80% over
budget.
Project- shop mentality
AEC industry culture: a need for change
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ARCHITECTURE
NEEDS A REBOOT:
Move away from a project-shop
mentality and evolve using
viable, practical business
knowledge.
“The culture of architecture, for
its own internal logic,
unwittingly exemplifies the
economic and social divides
that made our economy
vulnerable to recession in the
first place.” Robert B Reich
Aftershock
The Indicator: The Next Architecture, Part 1
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THE NATURE OF
COMPETITION HAS
CHANGED
Technology is advancing
exponentially —and
converging.
Computing,
Medicine,
Artificial intelligence,
3D printing,
Robotics,
Nanomaterials and Synthetic
biology
allows one industry to rapidly
disrupt another —before
market leaders even know
what hit them.
How the Nature of Competition Has Changed
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EMBRACE THE
CIRCULAR DESIGN
MOVEMENT:
The AEC industry answer to
sustainability is chained to the
past, it is chained to the concept
of green material with no or
minimum ability to recycle.
“Transitioning to the circular
economy is one of the most
important design challenges of
our time. For designers, it
means rethinking traditional
approaches and retraining in
circular principles.”Tim Brown
CEO -IDEO
New Circular Design Guide –IDEO &Ellen MacArthur Foundation
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AGORA GARDEN
BY VINCENT
CALLEBAUT:
A Cradle to Cradle concept
Biotechnological prototype.
Reinventing the industrial and
architectural processes to
produce clean solutions and
to create industrial cycle
where everything is reused.
The symbiosis of human
actions and their positive
impact on the nature.
Agora Garden by Vincent Callebaut
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SMART CITIES OF
THE FUTURE:
Material Tracking:
Cheaper & More flexible built
environments components are
modularized and tracked
enabling a local market for
recused building materials.
Asset Tracking: Precious metals
‘mined” from products
accumulated in cities and
cascaded back into different
use cycles.
Inside BIG IDEAS – The incubators WHERE architects become inventors
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CITIES MOVING TOWARDS
CIRCULAR DESIGN
Vancouver moving towards
a culture of restorative and
regenerative by design.
The Circular Cities Network
was launched in October
2016 with a global network of
nine pioneering cities: Austin,
Boulder, Copenhagen,
London, Ljubljana, New York
City, Peterborough, Phoenix
and Rio De Janerio.
Creating a circular economy in Vancouver through government action
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THE PRACTICE HAS
TO EVOLVE
Architecture which was once
prime has moved further down
the food chain.
As we are moving away from the
client and the decision making
and making ourselves irrelevant
over time.
“For architecture the conditions
have changed more in the last 30
years than they changed in the
previous two centuries, yet we still
act as if it’s the same profession.”Rem Koolhaas -OMA
Batik, Biennale and the Death of the Skyscraper. Interview with Rem Koolhaas
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LEAVE THE
INDUSTRIAL
ECONOMY
Architecture is not seen to
understand business and
where it is going.
“There's a notion that you
can't build big buildings for
owners who have highly
specific needs because needs
change and therefore that
building will be compromised
by its specificity. So architects
are placed in a market of
building shells."
Interview with Clive Wilkinson
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"Edison’s electric light did not
come about from the
continuous improvement of
the candle…“Oren Harari
Business Professor
University of San Francisco
"If I had asked people what
they wanted, they’d have
told me ‘a faster horse’!”Henry Ford
Ford Motors
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DESIGN THINKING -
THE CUSTOMER
EXPERIENCE:
Unlock Client experience
through throughDesign
Thinking.
Understand business of our
clients.
Craft the UX journey.
Remove all Pain points.
Reduce complexity.
Adapt to the changing
environment of the business
in global digital environment.
Photo Credit: iStock Photos X: Where Business Meets Design
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ADOPT MODULAR
CONCEPTS:
What if we can build like
Lego?
Design for construability
Build Elsewhere in dry
conditions.
Assemble at site with
minimum intrusion to the
environment.
Highly repeatable Module.
Optimizing labour cost
Schedule driven.
Build without severe weather
constraints.
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MODULAR
CONCEPT for
NEW YORK BY
STUDIO DROR:
Tower design for 100
Varicks. New York a series
of irregularly stacked boxes
held within a frame that
uses a structural geometry
the studio has been
developing over the past
few years, which it calls
QuaDror.
Studio Dror's conceptual tower designs for New York offer three takes on high-rise architecture
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NESTLE MODULAR
FACTORY:
A series of purpose-built
factory sections
Brought, ready-to-use, directly
to the site Connected to each
other according to
requirements.
Expanded, moved or its
function transformed without
having to start from scratch.
Less than 12 months vs 18 and
24 months.
50%-60% of the cost of
traditional build out.
Flexible, fast and functional: Nestlé to adopt modular factories.
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BECOME
INVENTORS &
INDUSTRIAL
DESIGNER:
QuaDror: A structural support
system. A new space truss
geometry that unfolds
manifold design initiatives &
adapt to various conditions and
configurations.
The access to knowledge is
changing, and access to
specialists. It creates different
discussions and different
results.
QuaDror - collapsible system allows for rapid assembly and a transition from closed and flat to open and self-standing.
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BUILDEX YVR 2017Photo Eric Owen Moss Archoitects
ARCHITECTS AS
INVENTORS AND
INDUSTRIAL
DESIGNER:
A cutting-edge structure: an
eccentric 17-story office tower
with steel ribbons wrapped
around floor-to-ceiling glass
windows.
Steel bands that will cover the
buildings exterior like a spider-
web -structures —not interior
columns —will support the
tower, serving as an
exoskeleton.
This L.A. office building is crazier than it looks:
Eric Owen Moss Architects
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B.I.G IDEAS –
ARCHITECTS &
INVENTORS:
Solving the architects’
experimental concepts for a
building.
Designing materials for these
buildings that may also go to
market.
Performing in-house
simulations for things like wind,
solar, shadow, acoustics, and
snow accumulation.
To build smarter buildings.
Inside BIG IDEAS – The incubators WHERE architects become inventors
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STUDY & ADOPT
NEW MATERIALS &
NEW
CONSTRUCTION
METHODS:
MIT Space-Age Material that
is ten times stronger than
steel but is only 5% as dense,
and it could revolutionize
architecture on Earth.
MIT: Machines and buildings
will be replicating, self-
assembling, and repairing
themselves soon.
MIT Prof: Self-Assembling and Repairing Buildings Are On the Way MIT Invented Space Age material
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INVEST IN
RESEARCH &
INNOVATION:
Understanding that the
technological advances in the
AEC industry such as, BIM and
other such technologies, are
advances in a predictable
linear fashion.
Innovative design solutions
and experimentation with new
manufacturing techniques are
still confined to academic
circles and research
institutions.
The Construction Business Goes Digital
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CONVERGE WITH
ADVANCE
TECHNOLOGY:
Designers & builders need to
up their game with data-driven
design, drone mapping, 3-D
printing and more innovations.
The industry lags behind other
fields in spending to develop
innovations.
Cumbersome organizational
structures and high financial
stakes make it difficult for AEC
professionals to experiment.
Gensler Completes the World’s First 3D-Printed Office Building Microsoft's HoloLens Would Let Builders See Their New Building Before It's Actually There
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TRAIN TO DATA MINE
& LEVERAGE
INFORMATION:
The lack of an evidence-based
approach to city planning has
ruined cities all over the world.
But data-mining techniques are
finally revealing the rules that
make cities successful, vibrant
places to live.
This new era of city science
could change that and help
create vibrant, vital living spaces
for millions of people around the
world.
Data Mining Reveals the Four Urban Conditions That Create Vibrant City Life
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THINK PRODUCTS &
MOVE INTO
MANUFACTURING
Architects & Engineers in the
future will have to work together
to extend their present arm
length involvement to work as
members of one firm and
expand into the role of Product
Designers with a bent for
Manufacturing.
Think Start-up.
Think Kit of Parts.
Design to Replicate.
Deliver Value & Scale.
Price to Target Market.
Flexible, fast and functional: Nestlé to adopt modular factories.
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SCOTT NAZARIAN -
BUILDING A BETTER
STARSHIP:
“The scale of what we’re
designing has shifted from
products, to companies, to
economic systems. Who
we’re designing for has
expanded from a solitary user
to an intimately connected
web of people, spanning the
globe.” Tim Brown
CEO -IDEO
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ASK YOURSELF THIS
QUESTION:
What’s the risk of standing still?