Smart Construction and Steel Structure Building Industry Development Opportunities in the New Era

At present, the fourth industrial revolution has been surging and sweeping through many fields, and engineering construction will usher in another subversive change. Steel structure has the characteristics of light weight, high strength and dry construction, which is a more suitable structural system for industrialized assembly, and intelligent construction will become an important part of the innovation of steel structure building construction method.

Standardized design. Standardized design is being paid attention to by the industry, and combined with EPC (engineering general contracting) and other internationally accepted construction modes to be landed, and then play a leading role in the design, so that the design throughout the whole process, and effectively improve the fragmentation of various aspects of the project, the industry chain is not smooth and other issues.

Factory production. Based on the characteristics of industrial big data and “Internet+” intelligent factory, the construction steel structure manufacturing factory is gradually transforming into intelligent factory, green factory and flexible factory.

Assembly construction. A large number of mechanical equipment, especially exploring the application of on-site installation robots and other equipment, can improve construction efficiency, low-carbon and environmental protection, cost savings, and enhance economic efficiency.

Integrated decoration. It can make the optimization of the building plan layout in one step, avoid the disconnection between the structural design and construction and decoration design, and also improve the efficiency of the decoration construction and enhance the quality of the project, which will be a trend in the future.

Informatization management. At present, the steel structure whole-life information management platform takes the lead in the steel structure field by integrating and applying new-generation information technology such as BIM (Building Information Modeling), Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing, big data, etc., which effectively improves the informationization and intelligent management level of the steel structure project.

For promoting the comprehensive landing of intelligent construction, the author has the following suggestions. First, to support the new construction mode as the goal, accelerate the promotion. Wisdom construction is the technical kernel of the new construction method, is the new construction technology of digitalization, is the technical support of the supply-side structural reform of the construction industry, and must be accelerated in all areas of engineering construction.

Secondly, it is led by whole-process integrated innovation to create advantages. Develop a collaborative design platform based on BIM to promote the development of intelligent design. Construct the basic platform and integrated application system of intelligent construction site under the environment of “Internet+” to promote the development of intelligent construction site. Oriented on serving the needs of users, develop the new mode of engineering construction of “platform+service” to promote the development of intelligent enterprise.

Third, the independent research and development of BIM platform as a support, make up the short board. It is necessary to strengthen the investment in the research and development of BIM basic platform with independent intellectual property rights, focus on solving the key technologies such as three-dimensional graphic engine, establish national standards, and accelerate the breakthrough of the technological bottleneck of the independent development of intelligent construction.

Fourth, to serve the direction of smart city construction, broaden the field. Through the integrated innovation of modern science and technology, the basic elements of building and infrastructure systems, services and management are optimized and reorganized to achieve higher efficiency, better performance, smarter and greener, and to open up new forms of business such as smart building, smart community, smart transportation and smart environmental protection.

Fifth, to strengthen cross-border cooperation and exchange as a mechanism to cohesion. Strengthen the government, industry, academia and research cooperation mechanism, the government in the basic level of innovation to give policy guidance and support, strengthen the top-level design, increase the incentives for the promotion and application; the government, industry, academia and research a clear positioning, close collaboration, and to promote the coordination of the innovation chain of the wisdom of construction and the value chain, the formation of synergies.