China Promotes Smart Construction

The Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and 12 other government departments recently issued joint guidelines to promote the co-ordinated development of both intelligent construction and industrialisation in the construction industry. The document puts forward key tasks in the following four areas:

1. Develop prefabricated buildings, advance construction industrialisation, and promote the establishment of a production system based on specialisation, economies of scale and information technology.
2. Accelerate the building of internet platforms for the construction industry, promote the integrated application of industrial internet platforms in the industry, develop industry-oriented application software, and promote digitalisation in the industry.
3. Actively promote the application of building robots to improve quality and efficiency in the industry.
4. Strengthen demonstration applications and raise overall standards with regard to the development of intelligent construction and construction industrialisation.

Source: Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development