Yoshiyuki Murata, Representative Director and Executive Vice President, Head of Technology Coordination Headquarters, Daiwa House: For people with a lot of experience in the industry, it can be difficult to immediately understand the value of BIM. However, everyone in the company was proactive in adopting BIM. That was a pleasant surprise.
Takaaki Miyauchi, Deputy General Manager, Construction and BIM Promotion Department, Daiwa House: What we have come to understand through using BIM is that there is still a lot of digital information in construction. Combining this with BIM will open even more possibilities.
Hiroshi Kono, Senior Executive Officer, Deputy Head of Technology Coordination Headquarters, Daiwa House: With an eye to future digital innovation, we will focus on connecting data using BIM as a powerful tool and on using that data.
Murata: Founded in 1955, I think Daiwa House is still a young company.
Kono: It is a company with a very challenging spirit.
Miyauchi: A developer, a housing builder, a construction company that builds hotels, etc., and also a company that is involved in various aspects of the lifestyle industry.
Murata: There are many construction companies out there, but I think it is rare for a company to continue growing year after year.
Miyauchi: In order to achieve our goal of becoming a 10 trillion yen company by 2055, we need a technological foundation to make that happen, so we decided to introduce BIM.
There were several obstacles in the initial stages of BIM implementation. The first obstacle was how to apply BIM to actual work processes. At first, we simply instructed employees to use BIM, but that didn't really increase the adoption rate. So we changed our approach to adopt BIM by working on the process more closely
Daiwa House and Autodesk began working together on BIM in 2017 and have described our relationship as a family.
Murata: By having Autodesk introduce the latest and most cutting-edge implementations, we hope to evolve in the most efficient, quickest, and most mistake-free way possible. I think our partnership will play an important role in this.
Miyauchi: It was effective in eliminating inconsistencies in design documents, and later, it also increased operational efficiency through the creation of drawings that could only be done with BIM.
Kono: Five and a half years on, we have continued to make very large investments. We should accelerate our investment in digital transformation to achieve great results faster.
Murata: BIM is seen as being cool. This makes the construction industry more attractive to younger generations. I think that's a big thing. The other thing is that using BIM has made it possible to do things that are too complex and advanced to do manually. I think these two things are significant.
Miyauchi: Some of the examples of things we are working on as ways to use BIM in the future include providing instant cost estimates and construction scheduling, and delivering environmental data. I want to continue to work with Autodesk on projects like this in the future, and as technology develops, I believe we'll be able to use data for even more purposes.
Kono: As Murata always says, “exporting Japanese construction to the world” is one of our big dreams.
Murata: My current mission is to make Daiwa House known for technology excellence. By strengthening this area, I think that Daiwa House will become a very valuable developer with excellent technological capabilities.
My goal is to make Daiwa House a truly global company known for its technology.
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