Press Release
12 December 2023
- Empowered by computational design and AI, P4D is an industry-first open ecosystem connecting developers, architects, engineers, suppliers, and other players to create sustainable outcomes with greater certainty at speed and scale.
- With more players joining the digital ecosystem, P4D is well-positioned to both enable and create new career pathways for the built environment.
Lendlease today gave an exciting preview of its game-changing digital platform solution Podium for Development (P4D) – a transformative digital ecosystem built on common data standards that connects developers, designers, and the supply chain, to deliver higher construction productivity and promote sustainable building methods – together with go-to-market partner Surbana Jurong, developers, partners and stakeholders across the built environment.
Instead of the months involved in design using conventional methods, P4D accelerates directly from design to supply by using its automation algorithms to configure optimal designs using a ‘kit-of-parts’1 defined by manufacturers. This leads to reduced waste in time, cost and materials.
At the event held at Google Singapore Campus attended by key players in the industry, many shared the challenges faced by the built environment sector, from persistently low productivity growth to continued supply chain issues. The consensus reached was that we are facing a critical need to transform our conventional building practices and leverage digital innovations like P4D, along with new ways of thinking including DfMA approaches to build better, faster and more sustainably.
With Managing Director of the Global AI Business at Google Cloud Caroline Yap delivering a keynote on the potential of generative AI in shaping the built environment, it is clear that now is the time for the built environment to reap the benefits of artificial intelligence and machine learning.
P4D also signals that digitalisation will enable conventional career opportunities within the built environment to venture into new technology-based career pathways, further cementing Singapore’s role as a global technology hub for nurturing talents.
Today’s exclusive look follows the go-to-market partnership announcement with Surbana Jurong in October to deliver P4D to the global built environment sector. Both parties are in advanced negotiations with other developers in Singapore and internationally, leveraging P4D to design and deliver projects in the future.
Government agencies like the Building and Construction Authority, Singapore Economic Development Board and JTC Corporation support the vision of a collaborative ecosystem designed to streamline the processes from design to supply, increasing project development certainty and reducing the materials and waste produced with the use of kits-of-parts. JTC collaborated with Lendlease to jointly develop design digitalisation tools that can automate preliminary industrial building design as Building Information Models (BIM). This function, built off P4D, allows for optimisation of the design process and enhanced coordination.
In addition, this initiative generates new job opportunities and enhances productivity in the Built Environment. At an industry level, coordinated and collective action is needed to reduce materials and waste, and consequently embodied carbon, and to deliver more sustainable outcomes for generations to come.
