New NBS survey to map digital technologies
Oct 25, 2018 |NBS

 Update: Since this article was first written, all the content from the NBS National BIM Library has moved across to NBS Source.
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Available to complete now, the NBS Construction Technology Survey aims to understand the current attitudes and adoption of various technologies as well as predicted use and trends in the future.

The survey looks into how digital technology is changing how you work, business processes, specification writing, using documents and spreadsheets, design tools, models and objects, project extranets and common data environments. 

“As we develop and lead on our own digital transformation within the industry, we also see the need for different technologies to work together within the same process,” said NBS CEO, Richard Waterhouse.

“In the past few years, we’ve highlighted and progressed a number of partnerships with technology vendors such as Autodesk, Graphisoft, and Vectorworks and developed a number of plug-ins to compliment various NBS tools with other leading technology platforms in order for our customers to be able to access and collaborate across different tools, getting the results they need and not limited by technology."

With our customers in mind, we want to be able to see what technologies the industry is using day-to-day, understand the attitudes and adoption process when it comes to new technology and perhaps look at what the industry is currently missing.

Richard Waterhouse, CEO, NBS

NBS will also be looking for case studies to promote as part of the report.

The survey closes at the end of November. The findings available before the end of the year.

Take the survey

 

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