Digital Transformation in Construction

Trusted to deliver technology solutions across construction

With the construction industry facing opportunity and challenge in equal measure, an 85% increase in construction projects by 2030 offers construction businesses and incredible chance to grow. Yet, a shortage of skilled workers and low rate of productivity makes it difficult for organisations to rise to the challenge.

The solution is technology. Beyond improving productivity and profit, there are many other compelling reasons that construction companies are adopting technology; from improving collaboration between teams and stakeholders to improving customer experience.

Audacia have a wealth of experience delivering digital transformation for leading construction companies; from applications to track the progress across UK wide housing developments for a leading luxury house builder, to platforms to streamline communications across employees and sites for one of the UK's biggest residential construction companies.

Fabric IQ and Ontology: Giving Data a Shared Business Meaning

Oliver Boult - 08/07/2026

AI agents need a fixed, shared meaning for business data before they can be trusted to reason over it. This piece looks at what Fabric IQ and Ontology actually are, how they differ from a semantic model, what preparing your data for them involves, and where the platform trade-offs sit against alternatives from Databricks and Snowflake.

A Testing Strategy for Legacy Modernisation

Richard Brown - 08/07/2026

Legacy systems often don't come with a specification, with their behaviour living in code nobody documented and workarounds nobody wrote down. This piece looks at why conventional testing breaks down in modernisation projects, how characterisation testing captures undocumented behaviour before it's changed, and how to measure whether your testing strategy is actually working.

From Proof of Concept to Production: What AI Projects Actually Require

Richard Brown - 06/07/2026

The gap between a proof of concept and a production system is where a significant proportion of AI initiatives fail to progress. Understanding what that transition involves, and planning for it from the outset, is one of the more important things a technology leader can do before committing investment. This blog draws on Episode 1 of Audacia's podcast Technically Speaking and covers the lessons our guests have taken from productionising AI.

Cybersecurity: The Human Problem AI Can't Fix

Audacia - 05/06/2026

This blog captures the key themes from the launch event of Technically Speaking, Audacia's new podcast - held as part of Leeds Digital Mini Festival. Technology and security leaders from financial services, government and software came together to explore the 'Human Problem' in cybersecurity.