CONSTRUCT-X

Construct-X develops and implements a federated data space for the construction industry. This enables the sovereign provision of data and its decentralized, virtually latency-free, and secure processing. Data should be comprehensively available across company and trade boundaries on the construction site, including for automated processes/robotics. Construct-X is also developing cloud-edge continuum technologies for various relevant use cases that ensure real-time data processing and transmission, for example, of data supplied by sensors from machines and devices. Construct-X is driving the development of digital twins of buildings and construction processes to enable precise and continuous control and optimization of construction projects and the processes taking place on the construction site and in its surroundings. This also includes all construction material logistics and comprehensive environmental information that can be used throughout the entire life cycle.

Project duration: 01.03.2025 – 29.02.2028

For a whole range of reasons, the secure, confident, and reliable transmission, storage, and processing of data in construction projects has so far only been achieved to a limited extent. The sheer diversity and large number of players involved in a construction project alone constitute obstacles. Almost every stakeholder brings their own, sometimes very specialized IT systems, which results in media breaks and sometimes time-consuming digital detours (e.g., via Excel lists). The rather sluggish and insufficient use of digital methods and tools across project boundaries has been identified as a major reason for low productivity, long construction times, and low resilience to potential disruptions (e.g., delivery failures).

Construct-X aims to remove significant barriers to the efficient use of digital methods and tools for the construction industry and develop solutions so that data can be used efficiently and profitably for construction projects across company boundaries.

Construct-X builds on principles already developed by Gaia-X and the Eclipse Dataspace Working Group for the data ecosystem and will be compatible with other ongoing initiatives such as Catena-X from the automotive sector and the cross-industry initiative 8ra. This ensures that data can be exchanged and used across data space boundaries (and thus across industries) through interoperable solutions, while maintaining data sovereignty and sovereignty for each player. A fundamental principle in the development of data models, data spaces, and other basic technologies in the Construct-X project is the preservation of the open-source concept.