These architecture, engineering, and construction trends will take a front seat in 2022. Here’s what owners and business leaders need to know to prepare.

• Remote work and collaboration are here to stay, requiring new methods of visualization—and heightened security requirements.
• Digital technologies and automation will help solve for everything from building health and maintenance to supply-chain issues.
• The sustainability conversation is turning toward embodied carbon as novel ideas kickstart a cascade of sequestering innovation.

If anything could be identified as the main narrative of the previous shifting, uncertain year, it’s adaptation. Architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) firms reacted, recalibrated, and evolved their working methods in 2021 amid rapid digitization and constant supply-chain challenges. Through it all, they figured out how to sharpen their pencils and get it done.

Yet at a time when disruptions seem to be daily events, and everything but creativity is in short supply, adaptation hasn’t been just a reaction—it has become a constant state. From adopting sustainability practices on a wider scale to making radical leaps in technological innovation, massive shifts within the AEC industries will continue in 2022 and serve as catalysts for changing models of collaboration, new technologies, and even virtual realities.

Here are six trends in architecture, construction, and beyond to look for this year.

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