The Strategic Thinking Area of the Argentine Chamber of Construction (Camarco) updates a study on the importance of construction in increasing productivity every four years, to present to candidates in general elections. The last one, called "Construir 2030 - Thinking the future 2020/2029", was presented in 2019, and now the new version "Construir 2034" is being prepared.
Daniel Galilea, technical manager of the entity, advanced to Convergencia that this new report will have as an added value the consensus with the other associations, chambers and organizations that make up the Group of Six (G6). That is, the Argentine Industrial Union (UIA), the Argentine Chamber of Commerce (CAC), the Buenos Aires Stock Exchange (BCBA), the Association of Banks of Argentina (Adeba), and the Argentine Rural Society (SRA). One of the main interests behind this consensual effort is the need to deploy fiber optic cables over road infrastructure, gas pipelines and other lines.
The aforementioned entities also presented recommendations on connectivity from the Infrastructure Policy Council, in which they participate together with the other two major players in the construction industry: the General Confederation of Labor (CGT) and the Argentine Construction Workers Union (Uocra).
In June 2022, the Council formalized general proposals on infrastructure, which included the need to improve coverage and quality of Internet access among their objectives. The report proposes reaching disconnected communities, reducing the costs of high-quality satellite Internet and promoting a Productive Connectivity Plan.
To this end, it called for promoting financing, creating tariff schemes with incentives for providers, supporting the development of suppliers and providers, and designing a plan to implement 5G.
The Council has a connectivity roundtable, focused on analyzing last-mile needs, satellite connectivity and governance. It also looks closely at access difficulties that may arise from infrastructure works and installations in remote areas of the country.
Construction 4.0. Under the concept of "Construction 4.0" refers to the adoption and use of technologies such as integrated systems, robots, IoT, additive manufacturing, Big Data, cloud, simulation of virtual environments, AI and cybersecurity, as defined by Camarco. The potential of these technologies lies in the reconfiguration of product development and delivery processes, business management, customer-supplier relationships and business models, and their adoption and use in the construction industry. As part of the chamber's work in a digital transformation program for construction companies, it conducted a 4.0 maturity diagnosis of the sector, in which 140 firms in the country participated.
According to the results released in November, the companies surveyed show levels of motivation and digital technological knowledge, but without sufficient depth to make them part of a transformation plan and without adequate dissemination throughout the various levels of the organization. The greatest delay is observed in specific work activities, an area in which the level of adoption and use of technology is more incipient, the report highlights.