Laying Foundations: Technological maturity in Canada's construction sector

upon interview responses and surveys from fourteen industry leaders, and aims to improve While the Canadian construction industry, the understanding of the factors contributing specifically, has made efforts to expand their to the low uptick of technological innovation in digital capabilities and increase technological the construction sector. [...] A major hurdle the government, the Centre educates the industry is the competitive nature of the construction on how the construction and infrastructure industry and the siloing of information. [...] A champion is anyone in the company’s that in the end what is more important is “the leadership or on staff who pushes for the adoption willingness to move with the times to innovate of a particular technology and is important not and resist the temptation to be stuck to the tried only in initially taking it on but also in creating the and tested.”40 Such leadership is paramount to culture around. [...] I think there is unfortunately a kind of a “When I moved to blanket statement across the board and there isn’t Canada, I was told proportional flexibility to what you would expect for sidewalks versus bridges.”57 by Canadians in the industry that the Construction plays a major role in many of the Canadian design and policy areas of interest in Canada including the environment, housing, and infrast. [...] The Innovation Park is designed to inspire and showcase the latest in “There’s a massive technologies to support age-in-place, sustainable shortage of skilled materials, and low carbon technologies, enabling the industry and government to fast-track to a trade in this country net-zero economy.