Technology is a key factor in meeting Ontario's housing needs - from improving approval processes to speeding up construction. realestate realestatenews Ontario housing
To build the housing that’s needed in Ontario and properly plan for the future growth of our province, we must raise the level of our game on many fronts, but especially when it comes to the use of technology.
Sadly, we are not at the forefront of innovation. That has been shown repeatedly in international rankings and must change. We are 10 to 20 years behind other leading world jurisdictions in digitization. At RESCON’s annual general meeting recently, we heard from Paul Smetanin, President of the Canadian Centre for Economic Analysis, who explained the benefits of digital twinning technology.
The technology can also be used to improve growth planning on a macro scale. By providing a digital representation of a real-world scenario, digital twinning can help address housing and infrastructure needs of communities and enables planners and designers to improve on the products. With immigration rates rising and substantial population growth anticipated over the next 20 years, digital twinning has taken on increased importance as we are going to have to figure out ways to build better and quicker. It will have significant implications for the housing industry in Ontario.
The project was made possible by the Mitacs Accelerate Grants Program and will build on earlier research done on building information modeling, or BIM, at a lab at the University of Toronto that was sponsored by RESCON. We are now hoping that the Ontario government will come to the table and support the One Ontario platform and match the funding so it can be rolled out in other regions.
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