In response to state council policy Yingchuang 3D printing assembly house

Recently, the ministry of housing and urban-rural development issued the outline for the development of construction informatization in 2016-2020, which has new instructions for 3D printing:

“Actively carry out research on 3D printing equipment and materials in construction industry. Explores the application of 3D printing technology to construction parts and components, and carries out demonstration applications based on the application of BIM technology.”

Yingchuang Building Technology ( Shanghai) Co.,Ltd is a high-tech enterprise that first realizes construction 3D printing in the world. After 15 years hard working, Yingchuang has 129 patents for 3D printing technology and is in the leading position in the world 3D printing construction industry, from  the first 3D printing wall, to the successful printing of the world's first 10 3D printing buildings, to the world's first 3D printing tower, to the world's first 3D printed office building in Dubai...

The outline of the construction informationization development for 2016-2020

The informatization of construction industry is an important part of the construction development strategy and also the inevitable requirement for the transformation and development of construction industry, the enhancement of quality and efficiency and energy conservation and emission reduction, which is of great significance for the green development of the construction industry and the improvement of people's life quality.

1. Guiding ideology

Since implement the party's 18th, the state council has promoted the spirit of informationization development, and implemented the development philosophy of innovation, coordination, green, openness and sharing, as well as the national big data strategy, "Internet plus" actions; Implement the outline of the national information technology development strategy; Enhance the ability of information development in the construction industry; Optimize the information development environment for the construction industry; Accelerate the integration of information technology and the development of the construction industry; Give full play to the leading and supporting role of informatization; Build a new atmosphere in construction industry.

2. Development goals

During the 13th five-year plan period, we will comprehensively improve the information technology of the construction industry, and focus on enhancing the application capacity of information technologies such as BIM, big data, intelligence, mobile communications, cloud computing and the Internet of things. Construction digitization, networking and intellectualization get great achievements and establish an integrated industry supervision and service platform.Data resource utilization levels and information service capabilities are significantly improved, forming a batch of construction enterprises with strong information technology innovation ability and information application to reach international advanced level, and construction information technology enterprises with key independent intellectual property rights. 

3. Main task

Enterprise informatization

Construction enterprises should actively explore the new mode of management and production under the "Internet +" situation and further study the innovative application of BIM, Internet of things technology and innovative business model to strengthen core competence and realize great-leap-forward development.

Survey and design enterprises

1. Promote in-depth integration of information technology and enterprise management

Further improve and integrate enterprise operation management information system and production management information system to realize the upgrading of enterprise management information system. Deeply integrated BIM, big data, intelligence, mobile communication, cloud computing to  realize the integration of BIM and enterprise management information system and promote the improvement of enterprise design level and management level.

2. Accelerate the popularization of BIM and realize the upgrading of survey and design technology

In engineering project investigation, the numerical simulation, spatial analysis and visual expression based on BIM are promoted. Study to build engineering investigation information database which supports heterogeneous data and a variety of collection methods to realize effective transmission and sharing of engineering survey information. During the planning and monitoring in the project, integrated application of BIM, GIS, Internet of things and other technologies to simulate and visualize the relevant schemes and results. In engineering project design, the application of BIM in the design of the performance and function simulation analysis, optimization, drawing, review, and deliverables and visual communication should be popularized to improve design quality.

Carry out data sharing and collaboration between multiple specialties, optimize design process, and improve design quality and efficiency based on BIM collaborative design.  

Study BIM integrated design system and collaborative working system to realize the information integration and sharing of architecture, structure, water and electricity.

3. Strengthen enterprise knowledge management and support intelligent enterprise construction. 

 Study and improve the acquisition and expression of information resources; Explore knowledge management and development mode; Establish a knowledge management information system for survey and design. Constantly develop and survey and design information resources, improve the knowledge base, and realize the sharing of knowledge; Fully exploit and utilize the value of knowledge to support the construction of smart enterprises.

Construction enterprises

1.  Strengthen the construction of information infrastructure

A data center that meets the needs of enterprise multi-level management can be used by private cloud, public cloud, or mixed cloud. Build the Internet infrastructure at the construction site, and use wireless network and mobile terminal widely to realize the security of interconnection between project site and enterprise management, improve the information-based operation and maintenance management system and ensure the stable and reliable operation of the facilities and system.

2. Promote the upgrading of management information system

Popularize the project management information system and carry out the BIM basic application of construction phase. The qualified enterprises should study the construction management mode and cooperative working mechanism under BIM application conditions, and establish a BIM based project management information system.

 Promote the construction of enterprise management information system. Improve and integrate project management, human resource management, financial capital management, labor management, material materials management and other information systems to realize enterprise management and main business information. The qualified enterprises should promote the deep integration of project business management and financial management in the enterprise management information system to realize the integration of business financial management. Promote the application of multi-party collaborative working system based on mobile communication and Internet to realize information communication and data sharing between enterprises and other participants of the project. The application of enterprise knowledge management information system, business intelligence and decision support system should be promoted, and the qualified enterprises should explore the integrated application of big data technology and support the construction of smart enterprises.

3. Develop new functions of management information system

Study to establish risk management information system and improve enterprise risk control ability. Establish and improve the electronic commerce system, or use the third party electronic commerce system to carry out material equipment procurement and labor subcontracting, finally to reduce the cost. The integration and application of BIM and Internet of things, cloud computing, 3S and other technologies are carried out in the construction process. Establish construction site management information system and innovate construction management mode and means.

General contracting enterprises

1. Optimize the project management and improve the level of integrated application.

 Further optimize the project management organization structure, workflow and information flow; Continuously improve the project resource decomposition structure and coding system. Deepen the information system of application estimation, bidding quotation, cost control and planning progress control, and gradually establish the estimation, quotation, cost and progress control system for international projects. Continue to improve information systems such as business management, capital management, financial management, risk management and e-commerce, and improve the level of cost management and risk control. The integration and application of information systems such as design management, procurement management, construction management, enterprise management and other information systems are realized by using the new technology to improve and deepen the application project management information system.

Explore the informationization management model of general contracting projects such as PPP, and study to establish corresponding management information system.

2. Promote the "Internet +" collaborative work mode to realize the whole process information.

Study collaborative work mode of the multi-participant project of project general contracting project in "Internet +" environment. The collaborative work system based on the Internet is established and applied to realize efficient cooperation and information sharing among the multi-participants of engineering projects. The project general contracting project is based on the implementation of BIM's multi-participant deliverables standard, and realizes the digital delivery and the whole life information sharing from design and construction to operation maintenance stage. 

Industry supervision and service informatization

 Actively explore new modes of construction industry pattern and resource integration under the situation of "Internet +"; Promote new business models in the construction industry, and support the innovation and development of enterprises under the "Internet +" situation.

Construction market supervision

1. Deepen industry integrity management informationization

Establish the sharing mode and method of the Internet based construction enterprises, basic information of practitioners and honest information. Improve the industry's integrity management information system, and realize the integration information service of enterprises, employees' integrity information and project information. 

2. Strengthen the application of electronic bidding

The application of big data technology to the identification non-standard behaviors to guarantee the fair and fair bidding process.

3. Promote the application of information technology in the management of labor real-name system

Application of Internet of things, big data and location-based services (LBS), and other technology to establish the national construction worker information management platform, and for docking and integrity management information system to realize the deep labor personnel information sharing. The application of face recognition, fingerprint identification, iris recognition and other technologies in the management of labor personnel in the engineering field is promoted, which is connected with the safety, occupational health, training and other information of engineering field workers.

Construction supervision

1. Establishing a perfect delivery system for digital achievements

Establish digital delivery, review and filing system of design results; Promote the delivery, review and archiving of digital achievements based on BIM. Carry out pilot and demonstration work for the blueprint and digitization trial of the white map. Improve the project completion record management information system and explore the project completion record mode based on BIM.

2. Strengthen the application of information technology in engineering quality and safety management.

Build engineering quality, safety supervision mode and mechanism based on BIM, big data, intelligence, mobile communication and cloud computing. Establish and improve the quality supervision information system of project project. Collect quality and supervision information of engineering entity quality and engineering construction, survey, design, construction, supervision and quality inspection unit. Realize the project completion acceptance record, construction project five party responsibility principal project leader information sharing. The data should be traced back to improve the quality supervision level. Establish and improve the construction safety supervision information system. Collect and summarize the safety information of project site personnel, mechanical equipment and temporary facilities. The construction enterprises, personnel, projects and other safety supervision information interconnection sharing will be realized to improve the construction safety supervision level. 

3. Promote the application of information technology in engineering field environment, energy consumption monitoring and construction waste management

Explore the environment and energy consumption monitoring model based on the Internet of things, big data and other technologies; Explore the dynamic monitoring system of environment and energy consumption analysis; Realize real-time monitoring of air, dust, water and electricity in the engineering field. The construction waste integrated management information system shall be established to realize real-time monitoring of data such as declaration, identification, measurement, tracking and settlement of project construction waste, and improve the level of green construction. 

3. Key project information

Vigorously promote the application of BIM, GIS in the construction of comprehensive pipe corridor; Establish integrated management information system; Gradually form the intelligent urban comprehensive pipe corridor operation service capacity. Actively apply BIM and virtual reality technology to carry out planning and design. Explore operation management based on cloud computing and big data, and demonstrate application. Accelerate the application of BIM technology in urban rail transit engineering design and construction. Promote the project management of the multi-dimensional building information model. In the "One Belt And One Road" key project, BIM is applied to explore the application of cloud computing, big data, GIS and other technologies.

4. Modernization of the construction industry

Strengthen the application of information technology in assembly building; Promote the design, production, transportation, assembly and whole-life management of BIM based construction projects to facilitate the construction of industrialization. establish a cloud service platform based on the BIM and Internet of things technologies, and realize the coordinated work of all participants in the industrial chain in various stages and links.

5. Industry information sharing and services

 Study and establish an information disclosure system for engineering construction, providing information services such as geological survey, environment and energy consumption monitoring for the industry and the public. Establish and improve the digital file management information system of the project, change the file management service mode, and promote the public file information sharing.

Special information technology application

1. Big data technology

Study and establish the framework of big data application in construction industry; Coordinate government data resources and social data resources; Build a big data application system; Promote public data resources to the public; Integrate and analyze big data such as construction enterprises, projects, practitioners and credit information; Explore big data in the construction innovation application; Promote data asset management and make full use of big data value. Establish a security system to standardize the security measures for the collection, transmission, storage and application of big data.

2. Cloud computing technology

Actively utilize cloud computing technology to upgrade the existing e-government information system, enterprise information system and software and hardware resources, and reduce the cost of informatization. Explore application potential of cloud computing technology in engineering construction management and facility operation monitoring.

3. Internet of things technology

Combine the development demand of the construction industry, strengthen the research and development of low cost, low power consumption, intelligent sensor and related equipment; Realize the integrated application of core chip, instrumentation and supporting software of the Internet of things in the construction industry; Carry out the research on the integrated application of sensor, high-speed mobile communication, radio frequency, near-field communication and qr code identification, etc.

4. 3D printing technology

Actively carry out research on 3D printing equipment and materials in construction industry. Based on the application of BIM technology, explore the application of 3D printing technology to construction parts and components and carry out demonstration applications.

5. Intelligent technology

Carry out the research on the application of intelligent robot, smart wearable device, hand-held intelligent terminal equipment, intelligent monitoring device, 3D scanning equipment and other equipment during the construction process; Improve construction quality and efficiency to reduce security risks; Explore the integration of information technologies such as big data, mobile communication, cloud computing and Internet of things in the construction industry to promote smart construction and smart enterprise development. 

4. Information standard

Strengthen the top-level design of information standard of construction industry; Continue to improve the construction industry and enterprise informatization standard system; Combining with the application of new technologies such as BIM, focus on perfecting the information standard system of the construction engineering survey and design, construction and operation of the whole life period, laying the foundation for information resource sharing and in-depth mining.

Accelerate the establishment of relevant information standards. Focus on compiling and improving the basic data and common standards of the construction industry and enterprise informationization related coding, data exchange, document and document delivery. Continue the preparation of the BIM technology application standard; Study and establish relevant standards based on the application of Internet of things, cloud computing, big data in construction industry.

Safeguard measures

1. Strengthen the leadership of the organization, improve the supporting policies, and accelerate the informatization of the construction industry

The administrative departments for urban and rural construction at all levels shall formulate the targets and measures for the information development of the 13th five-year construction industry in the region, forming a mechanism for promoting informatization and ensuring special funds for information construction. Explore the establishment of electronic bidding, digital delivery and electronic signature.

Establish the information expert committee and expert database; Give full play to the role of experts; Establish construction information innovation system; Strengthen the research on the combination of information technology and construction industry, and research on the informatization of construction industry. Carry out demonstration projects for construction industry informatization; Carry out demonstration of the construction industry informationization innovation based on "Internet +".

2. Vigorously enhance the information capacity of construction enterprises

The enterprise should formulate the enterprise informationization development goal and the supporting management system and strengthen the informationization in the enterprise standardization management to drive the function. Encourage enterprises to establish the chief information officer (CIO) system, invest in information construction in proportion to their business income, and open up channels for investment and financing to ensure the capital investment in construction and operation. Pay more attention to the introduction of BIM and other information technology professionals, cultivate the multi-disciplinary talents who are proficient in information technology and business, strengthen the application training of all kinds of personnel information technology, and improve the information application capacity of the whole staff. Large enterprises should actively explore and develop their own platforms, take aim at the international frontier, strengthen the application of key technologies in informatization, and promote the development of industry informatization. 

3. Strengthen the construction of information security

The administrative departments of urban and rural construction at all levels and the general enterprises shall raise the awareness of information security, establish a security system for information security, attach importance to data asset management, actively carry out information system security level protection, and improve information security.