For many years now, USP Marketing Consultancy (a dedicated market research agency for the construction and installation sectors) have been following the key trends in the construction industry. Today, I would like to share the top 5 trends we think will change the...
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Digitilisation and BIMSocial media barely used by European painters
For our monitor market studies, we regularly research media orientation behaviour among all sorts of professionals involved in the construction and installation sectors. Media orientation is also the theme topic of the 2022 Painter Insight Monitor, for which we...
Who are the BIM-using installers?
As part of the overall trend of digitalisation of the construction process, Building Information Modelling (BIM) plays an increasingly important role in the European construction sector. Over the past decade, we have seen BIM usage among architects increase slowly but...
DID CONTRACTORS’ USAGE OF DIGITAL MEDIA INCREASE IN TWO PANDEMIC-INFESTED YEARS?
Digitalisation is a major trend that affects the construction sector on several levels. Increasing usage of BIM is changing the construction process, for instance, and the rise of online ordering is affecting purchase channels. Digitalisation also affects the ways...
WHAT PRODUCTS DO EUROPEAN ELECTRICAL INSTALLERS USE BIM FOR?
BIM is playing an increasingly important role in construction, and its usage is growing among various construction professionals. However, as we saw in a previous article, the rate at which BIM is being picked up by European electrical installers majorly differs...
MAJOR DIFFERENCES IN ELECTRICAL INSTALLERS’ AWARENESS AND USAGE OF BIM IN EUROPE
Over the past decade or so, BIM has played an increasingly important role in the digitalisation trend in the construction sector. That is why we have continually researched BIM usage among all sorts of construction professionals. We have followed the growing...
CONSUMERS ALSO FIND ONLINE ORIENTATION IMPORTANT FOR HOME IMPROVEMENT PRODUCTS BOUGHT OFFLINE
In previous articles, we saw that the share of home improvement products purchased online has grown because of the pandemic. Despite that growth, the lion’s share of home improvement products is still bought offline, although those shares differ vastly per...
MARKET OVERVIEW OF BIM AND CAD SOFTWARE USAGE OF EUROPEAN ARCHITECTS
Digitalisation has majorly changed the construction sector. The impact of digitalisation is especially apparent in the way in which architects design and manage projects. On the one hand, digitalisation of the construction process and technical project management is shown by the growth of Building Information Modelling (BIM) usage among architects. On the other hand, the way they design has moved from paper to using Computer-Aided Design (CAD) software over the past decades.
MAJOR SHIFT IN RANKING OF EUROPEAN ARCHITECTS’ BIM USAGE
In the previous article we saw that over the past two years, BIM usage among European architects has not grown as much as expected. Although many reasons for this can be theorised, a very apparent one is that starting with BIM is perceived to be quite an...
PEAK IN ONLINE HOME IMPROVEMENT PURCHASES EXPECTED TO LAST
In previous articles we gave abundant evidence of the impact of the pandemic on the home improvement sector. We have seen that consumers had more reason, time and budget to do home improvement jobs because of being at home more due to corona restrictions. We...
PURE ONLINE PURCHASE CHANNEL USED MORE BY CONTRACTORS DUE TO COVID
For obvious reasons, there has been a massive rise in online shopping during the pandemic. Health concerns and closed shops pretty much forced consumers to stay away from physical stores and shop more online instead. This to the benefit of pure online stores, shops...
ONLINE MEDIA ORIENTATION – MORE ONLINE SHOPPING FOR HOME IMPROVEMENT PRODUCTS DUE TO CORONA
More online shopping for Home improvement products due to corona As we all know, and most of us have felt, the pandemic has forced many people to stay indoors and work from home. While spending more time at home, people were constantly facing possible points of...
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