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Technology is here to stay, and it will become more and more a part of the construction process. As we discussed earlier, specific products may or may not make it, but digital transformation is here and will reach into every aspect of the building process.

The driver of change is what's going on in the world outside of construction. This book was written right during the biggest pandemic in 100 years, and while we won't talk about Covid‐19 very much, this crisis has added fuel to existing arguments that the status quo needs a rethink.

Let's look at four external drivers of change: demographics, climate change, owner pressure, and the 2020 pandemic aftermath.