Pomerleau's Innovation Strategy

During this session we will focus on Pomerleau's Innovation Strategy and the importance of developing an Innovation Management Structure within your company. With the technology invasion into the construction industry, the importance of developing an innovation strategy and adopting technology into your daily operations is imperative. Innovation has always been part of Pomerleau’s core values, and in early 2019 Pomerleau renewed its innovation strategy and the structure required to successfully engage in technology research and development beyond BIM and Virtual Design and Construction. Since then we have been quite active in the innovation market by researching technologies and integrating new processes into Pomerleau work flows. In 2020 Pomerleau will be piloting robotics on our construction sites, Artificial Intelligence for data acquisition and continuing development in software plugin tools, digital twins for owners and advanced Lean scheduling / 4D modeling. In order to do so, our team had to evolve from a team of BIM-VDC Coordinators and Integrators to a broad team that includes software developers, data managers, research managers and technology integration and support staff. We will look at innovation strategy and management in general as we understand that not all companies have the size and budget of a large company like Pomerleau. Use cases will be used from Pomerleau's development strategy and some of our subtrades and owner partners so the discussions can relate to a larger audience.