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The Future of the Built Environment
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The Future of the Built Environment

Publication No
FR-360
Type
Research & Development Product
Publication Date
May 01, 2019
Pages
15
Research Team
RT-360
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Abstract
The Construction Industry Institute (CII) sought to expand its portfolio of research topics by identifying and proactively studying potentially disruptive strategic issues. CII challenged Research Team 360 (RT-360) to use scenario planning to map pote
Key Findings

RT-360 identified 16 drivers of change, based on the following definitions of what a driver is:

  • A driver is a key theme shaping the future of a topic.
  • A driver is a thematic cluster of related changes identified by the research and horizon scanning as driving or shaping significant change in the domain.
  • A driver encompasses cross-cutting changes that should be central considerations during strategy development.

For this project, the RT-360 researchers organized the drivers into three types, aligned to match the three plausible futures shown in the figure.

RT-360 identified 10 potential research projects and classified them into three thematic areas:

  1. How We Do Business
  2. Technology
  3. The Environment
     

The table shows an issue addressed by each research option.

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Future of the Built Environment
Keywords
Scenario Planning, Key Uncertainties, Pull of the Future, Push of the Present, Weight of the Past, Horizon Scanning, rt360