By assembling prefabricated components like building blocks, prefabricated construction projects reduce pollution, save resources and reduce costs. The efficiency of the exterior wall painting robot can reach 3 to 5 times that of manual work. Building automatic control system real-time regulation of indoor temperature, lighting, etc., so that the building has a "smart brain"...... In recent years, Chinese construction industry accelerated industrialization, digitalization, intelligent transformation, development quality and efficiency further improved.

Intelligent construction refers to making full use of intelligent technology in the construction process, improving the intelligent level of the construction process through the application of intelligent system, achieving the purpose of safe construction, and improving the cost performance and reliability of the building. In order to accelerate the deep integration of the construction industry with advanced manufacturing technology and the new generation of information technology, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development issued a notice not long ago, deciding to collect and select some cities to carry out intelligent construction pilot. This pilot has arranged four tasks: improving the policy system, cultivating the intelligent construction industry, building pilot demonstration projects and innovating the management mechanism, which will help form a replicable and scalable policy system, development path and supervision model, and play an exemplary and leading role in comprehensively promoting the transformation and upgrading of the construction industry and promoting high-quality development.

Construction industry plays an important role in our national economy. Last year, the total output value of construction industry was 29.3 trillion yuan, with a year-on-year increase of 11%, and the added value accounted for 7% of the GDP, which strongly supports the sustained and healthy development of national economy. But for a long time, the development of Chinese construction industry mainly relied on the input of resource factors, large-scale investment, the extensive mode of production, labor efficiency, and the large consumption of energy resources and so on are quite prominent problems. The 14th Five-Year Plan and 2035 vision outline put forward: "Develop intelligent construction, promote green building materials, prefabricated buildings and steel structure housing." The development of intelligent construction with the help of 5G, artificial intelligence, Internet of things and other new technologies has become an urgent need to promote the transformation and upgrading of the construction industry and enhance its international competitiveness.

Developing smart construction is an important way to ensure steady growth and expand domestic demand. Intelligent construction industry has the characteristics of high scientific and technological content, large industrial correlation, strong driving ability and so on. It not only has huge investment demand, but also can provide a huge consumer market for the new generation of information technology. The development of intelligent construction will not only drive the development of emerging industries such as artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things and high-end equipment manufacturing, but also foster new industries, new business forms and new models in the construction industry, such as Internet, construction robots and digital design, and thus foster new economic growth points.

The development of smart construction is also an important measure to help achieve the goal of carbon peaking and carbon neutrality. With the help of advanced construction technology, the green and low-carbon transformation of the construction industry can be promoted. For example, prefabricated buildings can reduce the amount of scaffolding, improve the construction efficiency, and have advantages in energy saving, material saving and land saving. In some places, "direct and flexible light storage" buildings integrating photovoltaic power generation, energy storage, DC distribution and flexible electricity consumption are built to realize independent regulation and optimization of electricity consumption.

It should be noted that the development of intelligent construction is a complex systematic project, covering scientific research, design, production and processing, construction and assembly, operation and other links, which requires overall planning and coordinated promotion. Among them, it is particularly critical to strengthen the basic common technologies of the construction industry Internet platform and cultivate a number of industry-level, enterprise-level, project-level platforms and government supervision platforms. At the same time, it is also necessary to provide policy support in terms of financial support, personnel training and promoting the establishment of a production system based on standard parts. Taking talent training as an example, currently, there is a relative lack of interdisciplinary talents who are familiar with both civil and architectural engineering and information technology. It is urgent for colleges and universities to develop a layout around the new direction of interdisciplinary subjects and build a suitable talent training program. Only by focusing on problem-oriented, collaborative innovation in technology and management, and industrial integration, and taking effective measures, can we better develop smart construction and facilitate the high-quality development of the construction industry.

The development of intelligent construction is of great significance and has great potential. Facing the future, we will promote the coordinated development of intelligent construction and construction industrialization, and the core competitiveness of "China Built" will continue to improve, and the achievements of high-quality development of the construction industry will become more outstanding.

Source: State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council