Smart construction leads the transformation and upgrading of the construction industry during the 14th Five-Year Plan.

Currently, the world is entering a period of economic development dominated by the information industry. We must seize the opportunity of the integrated development of digitalization, networking, and intelligence, using informatization and intelligence as leverage to cultivate new momentum. We will promote the deep integration of the internet, big data, and artificial intelligence with the real economy, and strengthen the digital economy.
For the construction industry, continuously enhancing the integration capability of information technology, promoting the application of the whole-process information model, and leading transformation and upgrading through intelligent construction is key to achieving high-quality development.

Enhance information integration to promote intelligent transformation.

This year is a key year for the "14th Five-Year Plan". The construction industry is in a transformation stage of high-quality development. To promote high-quality development, we must accelerate the modernization of the construction industry, continuously innovate technology management models, construction techniques, etc., and continuously enhance the application capabilities of information technologies such as BIM (Building Information Modeling), big data, cloud computing, and the Internet of Things, promoting the digital, networked, and intelligent transformation of the construction industry and achieving breakthrough progress.

BIM is a core component of digital development. The construction industry must continuously expand the depth and breadth of BIM applications, making property services and urban management departments the main driving units of BIM applications, allowing typical BIM applications to permeate all aspects of building operation and maintenance, urban operation, etc. Currently, CIM (City Information Modeling) has begun to enter an important stage of application in urban construction. The focus of BIM is information, while the core of CIM is integration. BIM is one of the important basic data for CIM, and CIM and BIM represent the relationship between macro and micro, overall and local. From BIM to CIM, we build the digital space infrastructure of the city to support urban development.

Currently, the concept of the full lifecycle development of buildings is becoming well-known. The scientific management method proposes that achieving "intelligent construction" requires a whole-process information model management thinking, which is the concept of "whole-process information modeling", namely TIM (Total Information Modeling).

Through the conception and implementation of TIM, we can achieve the management of the entire lifecycle of engineering construction and urban building, incorporating all stages from initial concepts, planning, design, and construction to the end of the building project cycle into a whole-process, full-cycle information management.

Update management thinking to promote the application of the whole-process information model.

In 2020, China's first 5G (fifth-generation mobile communication technology) smart construction site began to take shape. To achieve the goal of establishing a policy system and industrial system for the coordinated development of intelligent construction and building industrialization in China by 2025, the establishment and application of the whole-process information model in the construction industry is necessary. To achieve significant progress in the coordinated development of intelligent construction and building industrialization in China by 2035, fully realize building industrialization, and enter the ranks of world powers in intelligent construction, we need to systematically sort out the complex systems involving multiple parties, multiple fields, and multiple links related to promoting the coordinated development of intelligent construction and building industrialization, using TIM management thinking to comprehensively coordinate the wisdom and strength of industry managers and executors to jointly promote.

First, we must adhere to the "binary" management thinking, treating quality and safety as the eternal base representative and calculation rule throughout the entire lifecycle of construction.

Second, we must adhere to the "object-oriented" management method, organizing relevant data and management methods of the traditional construction industry into an abstract whole, inheriting the same while expanding different content, laying a solid foundation for the systematic analysis of high-quality development in the construction industry.

Next, we must adhere to the "decentralized" thinking process, focusing on the information modeling of all process links in the building lifecycle, viewing the departments, units, links, specialties, nodes, and personnel involved in the entire industrial chain of construction as important connecting links and central stages in the process.

Finally, we must effectively utilize "artificial intelligence" and "big data" thinking, solidifying the application of the whole-process information model, continuously strengthening the practices of BIM, developing the research and application of CIM, and continuously promoting breakthroughs in digitalization, networking, and intelligence.

In doing anything, a solid foundation must be laid, just as a high-rise building requires a solid foundation. By seriously doing the foundational work of informatization and adhering to the management thinking of applying "whole-process information modeling", we can better support the high-quality development of the construction industry.