In today's digital age, the construction industry is experiencing an explosion of data growth reminiscent of the beginning of vegetation growth during the coal age. Data volumes are doubling every year, following Moore's Law, reflecting the global trend of continuous and accelerated growth of digital information.
Gordon Moore's Law, co-founder of Intel, predicts that the density and complexity of integrated circuits, including the amount of data processed and stored, will double about every two years.
The onset of digitalisation in the 1990s led to a rapid proliferation of data in the construction industry, similar to the vigorous growth of forests during the coal period
Like the first plants of the Devonian period, which grew on Earth millions of years ago without the ability to reproduce by seed, ancient building projects such as Göbekli Tepe in Turkey did not leave "seeds" in the form of records or drawings for use in future construction projects.
With the advent of digitalisation, like the first covered flowering plants, the angiosperms, which millions of years later launched a revolution in the spread of life on earth, modern technology allows us to harvest the 'seeds' of digital data from past projects to use in the creation of new data.
Digital data born of modern systems, thanks to machine learning technologies and large language models like ChatGPT serve as a valuable resource for automatically populating new projects with data, just as seeds revolutionized the spread of life on a previously empty planet.
Digital technology, like the first flowering plants, has caused an explosive growth in the mass of data
We are standing on the threshold of a new era in construction, where the explosion of data is not just being observed - it is actively shaping the digital future of the entire construction industry. The growth of data in the information age is reminiscent of evolutionary processes in nature, where just as the development of forests transformed the ancient landscape of the planet, the current information explosion is reshaping the landscape of the entire construction industry.
