While most other industries have undergone tremendous changes over the past few decades and have reaped the benefits of process, product and service innovations, the construction sector has been hesitant to fully embrace the latest innovation opportunities and its labour productivity has stagnated or even decreased over the last 50 years. <\/p>\n
This mediocre track record can be attributed to various internal and external challenges: the persistent fragmentation of the industry, inadequate collaboration between the players, the sector\u2019s difficulty in adopting and adapting to new technologies, the difficulties in recruiting a talented and futureready workforce, and insufficient knowledge transfer from project to project, among others.<\/p>\n
In the context of the Forum\u2019s Future of Construction initiative, over the past year six Working Groups comprised of industry leaders, academics and experts met regularly to develop and analyse innovative ideas, their impact, the barriers to implementing solutions and the way forward to overcoming obstacles and implementing modern approaches in the construction and engineering industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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