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Construction Knowledge Framework Data – Critical Information Gap
21 Sep 2017
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Big data exposes a widening construction knowledge gap
Analysis of 6 million pieces of data has revealed that the knowledge framework underpinning the construction industry is no longer fit for purpose. Practitioners do not have easy access to critical knowledge, and so it is inevitable that mistakes will be made.
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Designing Buildings Wiki, the construction industry knowledge base, has undertaken the first ever comprehensive mapping of construction industry knowledge. The startling results have been published today in a major new report ?Fit for purpose" Big data reveals the construction knowledge gap?. The report includes a series of remarkable visual maps giving never-before-seen insights into how construction knowledge works and where it fails.

The key findings of the report are:

? The industry is lacking the strategic leadership needed to coordinate the creation and dissemination of knowledge.

? The emergence of the internet has fundamentally changed the way practitioners access knowledge, but the industry has not kept up.

? Knowledge that is difficult to understand, buried in long documents or locked behind pay walls will not be used – even if it is critically important.

? Practi...