1. Irish Construction Law Conference 2017: Digital disruption & new technologies in construction: Key legal issues arising.
Wednesday 6th December 2017
David Savage Partner, Head of Construction & Infrastructure Sector

2. What is the 4th industrial revolution?
Is it really happening?
What does it look like?
Data is the new oil
Big data leads to hyper personalisation
How do we adjust? Digital aliens, converts and natives

3. What is the 4th industrial revolution?

5. Robert J. Shiller, 2013 Nobel laureate in economics, Professor of Economics, Yale University

6. “The fourth industrial revolution, however, is not only about smart and connected machines and systems. Its scope is much wider. Occurring simultaneously are waves of further breakthroughs in areas ranging from gene sequencing to nanotechnology, from renewables to quantum computing. It is the fusion of these technologies and their interaction across the physical, digital and biological domains that make the fourth industrial revolution fundamentally different from previous revolutions.
In this revolution, emerging technologies and broad-based innovation are diffusing much faster and more widely than in previous ones, which continue to unfold in some parts of the world. This second industrial revolution has yet to be fully experienced by 17% of world, as nearly 1.3 billion people still lack access to electricity. This is also true for the third industrial revolution, with more than half of the world’s population, 4 billion people, most of whom live in the developing world, lacking internet access.
The spindle (the hallmark of the first industrial revolution) took almost 120 years to spread outside of Europe. By contrast, the internet permeated across the globe in less than a decade.”
Klaus Schwab, The Fourth Industrial Revolution

7. What about the construction sector?
Productivity, productivity, productivity
BIM
On site robotics
Off site manufacturing
Smart Materials
Blockchain and “smart contracts”

8. What about the wider real estate context?
Smart buildings
Smart cities
Challenges for all property stakeholders

9. Construction contracts
Inhibitor or enabler?
Who really call the shots?
How do others do it?
Can we really become like aerospace and car manufacturing?
Construction as a service

10. BIM

11. BIM Design impact diagram

12. Blockchain What is blockchain?
How might blockchain technology be used in the construction sector?
Who is looking into all this in the construction context?
dotBuiltEnvironment (.be) has been formed by a group of construction professionals previously brought together as the CIC BIM2050 Group, as a network that promotes digital adoption across the built environment (see
University College London, which has formed a Construction Blockchain Consortium (see