APAC construction sector shows strong optimism and investment post-COVID with digitisation tipped as key growth area, InEight Outlook finds.
TAKING THE PULSE OF THE
INDUSTRY
IN JULY, INEIGHT LAUNCHED ITS FIRST GLOBAL CAPITAL PROJECTS OUTLOOK REPORT. ROADS & INFRASTRUCTURE SITS DOWN WITH ROB BRYANT, INEIGHT’S EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT FOR THE APAC REGION, TO DISCUSS SOME OF THE KEY FINDINGS FROM THE REPORT.
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Rob Bryant, InEight’s Executive Vice President for the APAC region.
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ROADS SEPTEMBER 2021
he construction industry, like all industries, faced tremendous challenges during 2020. But despite difficulties like border closures, material shortages and scarcity of skilled workforce, construction professionals in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region remain fairly optimistic about the industry’s future, as InEight’s first Global Capital Projects Outlook report found earlier this year. For its first [with potentially more] of such industry reports, InEight, a global leader in construction project management software, worked in conjunction with a global market
research partner to survey 300 of the world’s largest capital project owners and construction professionals over six weeks in February and March, 2021. Survey questions were designed to gauge general confidence and optimism levels across the industry, and assess track record, plans and attitudes towards digital transformation. As Rob Bryant, InEight’s Executive Vice President for the APAC region explains, respondents were selected to represent both project owners and contractors, with equal proportion from the three focus regions – namely the Americas, Europe and APAC.
