Notes
1 Consult the World Economic Forum, “This is the next hurdle in the construction industry’s race to net-zero.”
2 Read Deloitte’s report, “Sustainable Buildings: Designing, building, and operating to help create a greener future,” page 3.
3 Refer to the Dodge Construction Network, “Building Sustainably: The Drive to Reduce Embodied Carbon in Concrete Construction.”
4 Visit the International Energy Agency (IEA), “The Critical Role of Buildings.”
5 See GreenBiz, “Navigating climate disruption in the building sector.”
6 Read the report by Dodge Data & Analytics, “Prefabrication and modular construction.”
7 See the survey in Deloitte’s “2023 Engineering and Construction Industry Outlook.”
8 See note 7
9 See note 7
10 See note 7
11 Visit Freddie Mac, www.freddiemac.com/pmms.
12 Read “Building a better America” by The White House.
13 Refer to Deloitte report, “Sustainable Buildings: Designing, building, and operating to help create a greener future,” page 6.
14 See note 7
15 Refer to the document by the Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction (GlobalABC), “2021 Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction.”
16 Refer to the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.
17 Read the International Code Council’s (ICC’s) news release.
18 Read “USGBC announces Top 10 Countries and Regions for LEED in 2021.
19 Learn more about LEED by reading, “LEED for Building Design and Construction.”
2 See note 19
21 Learn more at “Europe’s Digital Decade: digital targets for 2030.”
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Authors
Misha Nikulin is a managing director in the Industrial Products & Construction practice, focusing on technology strategy, data and analytics, emerging technologies, and innovation—primarily serving in engineering and construction. He helps clients by leveraging his more than 20 years of engineering, procurement, construction (EPC) experience across different sectors to improve productivity, profitability, and enable new growth. Nikulin has led large strategic initiatives, enterprise-level global IT transformations, and intrapreneurial innovation programs. Nikulin’s construction emerging technology experience includes smart jobsite solutions, digital twin, Internet of Things (IoT), visual intelligence, artificial intelligence (AI-enabled) generative design, and business intelligence.
Michelle Meisels is a principal in Deloitte Consulting’s technology practice and leads the engineering and construction practice. She brings more than 27 years of consulting experience, with a focus on leading large, often global, finance, and IT transformation programs by leveraging technology. Meisels helps clients integrate digital technologies with organizational and process standard practices to achieve both qualitative and quantitative benefits. She specializes in JDE, EBS, and Cloud. While Meisels has served clients across many industries, her primary focus has been serving engineering and construction (E&C) companies. She has served many global E&C, EPC, and construction companies throughout her career. Meisels was born and raised in Southern California and graduated from UCLA. For more about Deloitte, please see www.deloitte.com/about.
