SAPanoptikum October 2016

Digitization in the construction industry

Study: Without consistent digitalization, construction companies are putting their competitiveness at risk.

Digitalization is impacting the entire value chain and changing entire business models.

This also applies to the construction industry: 93% of construction companies assume that digitalization will influence all of their processes. However, a new Roland Berger study shows that this realization has so far only been followed by corresponding action in very few cases.

Roland Berger's experts surveyed 40 construction companies and construction suppliers from Germany, Austria and Switzerland to find out how they assess the potential of digitalization and how far along they are in implementing it.

According to the survey, less than six percent of construction companies use digital planning tools throughout. Among the building materials companies surveyed, as many as 100 percent believe that they have not exhausted their digitalization potential.