“Software eats the world“, said Marc Andreessen in the Wall Street Journal in 2011. We witness it every day. We have a new iPhone version every year, integrated AR, Siri, which tells you where you will go or Alexa which answers almost every question. This technology is supposed to make our life easier every day, although sometimes the dreaded Autocorrect (visit DYAC for a good laugh) is more hindrance than help. This is of course valid for all industries. It has been said that every company in fact should become a software company.
How is this in construction? 80% of construction projects are behind schedule, 20% over budget, we have seen zero productivity gain in the last 50 years, 10% accepted error rate, only 1% IT investment (almost the last), change progresses rather slowly. Despite this, we have highly developed special applications: we are able to transform ourselves into a completely virtual world down to the exact millimeter, we can accurately predict how long each…