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Smart Structures In the Construction Industry: A
Market and Technology Forecast—2016-2025
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Smart Structures In the Construction Industry: A Market and Technology Forecast: 2016-2025
n-tech believes that the market for smart structures in buildings, bridges and tunnels is about to take off based on
improved energy efficiency, reduced construction costs, increasing the lifespan of buildings and even improving building
aesthetics. These developments fit well with the current buzz about the Internet-of-Things (IoT) and smart cities and will
create opportunities for smart materials suppliers, building materials firms, structural health monitoring system (SHM)
companies, energy companies and the construction firms themselves.
This report pinpoints the potential for smart structures in the construction sector and quantifies them in form of ten-year
forecasts expressed in volume and value and also segmented by the building geography and type.
The report provides analysis of the markets for smart structures in seismic and wind damage avoidance, SHM systems and
smart building skins. It also quantifies the opportunities for the smart materials and components used in the smart
building structures. These include shape memory alloys and polymers, piezoelectric technology, self-cleaning and self-
healing materials, color-shifting surfaces, specialized biomaterials, and a variety of sensors.
Our analysis includes large international firms and interesting new startups. Some of the companies covered include:
Agilent, Alcoa, Arkema, Autonomic Materials, Covestro, Cytec, Dow Chemical, Dynalloy, Ferro, Honeywell, Heliatek, IBM,
Johnson Controls, Lord Corporation, Mitsubishi, Oxford Photovoltaics, PPG, SLIPS Technologies, Teijin, and Toray.
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The Executive Summary presents a succinct summation of our analysis, conclusions and forecasts
Chapter One sets context for the market and reasoning for the report. We set out the scope, objectives and
methodology
Chapter Two of this report provides an analysis of the construction industry and its need for smart structures and
includes a quantitative evaluation of the addressable market for these and related products.
In Chapter Three we examine the latest smart building materials and discuss how they map into the smart structure
needs for buildings, bridges and tunnels.
The remaining chapter—Chapters Four is devoted to forecasting the classes of smart structures.
Plan of the Report
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3.3 Towards More Effective SHM: Technology Trends
3.4 The Rise of Smart Buildings Skins
3.5 A Note on Smart Floors
3.6 Influencing the Influencers
3.7 Policy Considerations for Smart Building Skins
3.8 Key Points from this Chapter
Chapter Four: Smart Structure Deployment in Construction: Geographies and
Markets
4.1 Smart Structures Inside: An International Comparison
4.2 Beyond New Prestige Buildings and Bridges: Retrofits and Residential Markets
4.3 The Impact of Smart Cities on the Future of Smart Structures
4.4 Similarities to the BIPV Market
4.5 Smart Structures in the U.S. Construction Market
4.6 Smart Structures in the European Construction Market
4.7 Smart Structures in the Japanese Construction Market
4.8 Smart Structures in the Chinese Construction Market
4.9 Smart Structures in the Other Parts of Asia and Australasia
4.10 Smart Structures in the Persian Gulf Construction Market
4.11 10-Year Forecast of Addressable Market for Smart Structures by Geography
Acronyms and Abbreviations Used In this Report
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Top Level Table of Contents
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Executive Summary: A Summary of Opportunities
E.1 Opportunities Presented by Smart Structures Deployment in the
Construction Industry
E.2 Firms to Watch in this Sector
E.3 Summary of Market Opportunity by Addressable Market
E.4 Summary of Market Opportunity by Geography: Ten-Year Forecasts
Chapter One: Introduction
1.1 Background to this Report
1.2 Objectives and Scope of this Report
1.3 Methodology and Sources of Information
1.4 Plan of this Report
Chapter Two: Smart Structures in Construction: Materials and Technologies
2.1 Smart Materials for Smart Structures
2.2 Sensors for Smart Structures
2.3 Ten-Year Technology Forecast for Smart Structures in the Construction
Industry
Chapter Three: Smart Structures in Construction: Product Evolution
3.1 Smart Structures in the Construction Industry: A Product Roadmap
3.2 Mature Markets for Seismic and Wind Damage Monitoring and Recovery

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Table of Figures
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Exhibit E-1: Firms to Watch in this Sector
Exhibit E-2: Ten-Year Forecast of Prestige Building Market for Smart Building Structures
Exhibit E-3: Ten-Year Forecast of Bridge Market for Smart Building Structures
Exhibit E-4: Ten-Year Forecast of Other Commercial and Industrial Markets for Smart Building Structures
Exhibit E-5: Ten-Year Forecast of Residential Markets for Smart Building Structures
Exhibit E-6: Ten-Year Summary of Market Forecasts by Type of Construction ($ Millions)
Exhibit 1-1: Evolution of Smart Structures in the Construction Industry
Exhibit 1-2: Addressable Market Evolution for Smart Structures in the Construction Industry
Exhibit 2-1: Selected Smart Materials with Opportunities in Smart Structure-based Construction
Exhibit 2-2: Customer Choice Possibilities of Smart Coatings for Smart Windows
Exhibit 2-3: Ten-year Forecast of Smart Structure-based Construction Market by Type of Technology ($ Millions)
Exhibit 2-4: Summary of Market by Type of Smart Material and Components ($ Millions)
Exhibit 3-1: Smart Wall Functionality and Markets
Exhibit 3-2: BIPV Glass Applications and Opportunities
Exhibit 4-1: Summary of Market by Geography ($ Millions)

Market Forecast
• Smart building structures provide new uses for both commercially
available smart materials and those just emerging from the lab. For
example, the smart structures “revolution” will see the use of nitinol
shape memory alloy (SMA) to replace some traditional steel-and
concrete construction, using its ability to self-restore when a building
or bridge comes under stress. In total the smart building structure
market will produce around $150 million in smart materials sales in
2021.
• In the next few years, the focus in this business will be on SHM.
Leveraging the capabilities of smart materials and sensors, SHM will
take the relatively mature market for seismic protection and turn it
into a broader market where money is made protecting building,
bridges, etc. against wind and other weather conditions, with finer
tuned data collection and automatic repair capabilities than has ever
been possible. By 2021, we expect the building SHM market to reach
$555 million
• Today smart building skins using smart structures are mostly found in
high-profile projects and experimental buildings. However, by 2021
they will account for $1.4 billion in smart structure
shipments. Building skins will make use of leading edge technologies
such as embedded biomaterials that clean the air in the air in the
building, while providing sustainable energy at the same time; or
color-shifting materials that simultaneously enhance energy
efficiency and aesthetics in sync with the weather and time of day
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Forecast of Smart Structure-based Construction
Market by Type of Technology
Seismic + Damage SHM
Smart Skins-Design Based Smart Skins-Novel Materials

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Market Evolution
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Addressable Market Evolution for Smart Structures in the Construction Industry
Market Segment Current/Future Penetration and Business Case Timeframe
Prestige buildings
Current focus of all activity in the smart structures space. Case
for disaster avoidance seems proven – but other activity may
be intended to support further funding, especially from
government
Current
Other industrial and
commercial buildings
Scaled-down versions of smart structure-based systems could
easily be created if they are proven in existing markets
If the business case can be made then these will
appear in two to five years
Residential buildings
Overlaps with industrial and commercial buildings in that
residential buildings often exhibit similar economics and
business cases for technology deployments.
Timeframe for apartment blocks and multi-tenant
building three to five years. Use in small homes may
be a long way off
Retrofits
Extensive rebuilds will include smart structures, but probably
little penetration for minor re-design or refurbishing
Soon

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 Considerable effort has been directed towards using technology to protect buildings against damage from seismic
activity and heavy winds. These have been long-standing concerns in the construction industry, of course, but
technological and economic forces are now turning smart structures into possible solutions in this area.
 The next stage of evolution in this space can be categorized as structural health monitoring (SHM), which deploy
smart structures in order to achieve real time—or at least near real time measurement of the structural health of the
building. These are generally regarded as expensive options at the present time and this had held back the market,
as has a credibility problem with building specifiers such as general contractors or architects.
 SHM systems are intended to have a fairly narrow range of functionality but n-tech believes that eventually these
systems will evolve into smart building skins. Structural health is just one factor inspiring building skins and they are
typically as concerned—or more concerned—with issues such as energy efficiency, daylighting or improved
aesthetics.
 Instrumentation costs for SHM have declined dramatically making it possible to equip and monitor bridges, dams,
buildings, and water and environment resources in a more economical manner than in the past. The cost of
connectivity has also fallen enabling for new high-bandwidth features for SHM. The rise of cloud technology also
provides a level of flexibility and scalability for SHM systems that was not available until a few years ago.

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• Smart skins take a lot of this technology to the next stage. They could potentially incorporate all or any of the
technologies that we have reviewed in this chapter. But they add an ability to adapt to environmental conditions;
which means that they have the ability to control heating, lighting, ventilation, etc. And they are also intended to
impact aesthetics to some degree.
• In addition to the inclusion of self-dimming windows the energy-related aspects of smart skins can be tied to (1) skins
that provide improved environmental conditions for people in the buildings and (2) skins that generate their own
energy, often through the use of solar capabilities. Several examples of smart building skins integrated photovoltaics
layers and are therefore also examples of BIPV.
• To make smart structure-based construction thrive, we believe that the construction industry and the architectural
community need to have a deeper understanding of what can be achieved using this technology. In any case, builders
and architects need to become proficient in the technology so as to be able to explain its advantages to clients.
• Finally, much of the funding for smart structure-enabled construction comes from government at the present time
and this will not change in a dramatic way. We see government funding of both subsidies and research playing
important roles in this market

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Companies to Watch
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Firms to Watch in this Sector
Acellent
Technologies
Established (founded in 1999) SHM company and a good firm to look to for signs of mainstream changes in SHM
technology and applications. Supplies SHM technology to the aerospace industry as well as the construction sector
Autonomic
Materials
This start-up is well funded and in the process of commercializing autonomic self-healing additives for paints and coatings.
This would represent an advantage over current self-healing systems that require heat in order to self-repair. Self-healing
technology is not discussed much in the context of smart building skins, but their use seems inevitable as these systems
move towards multifunctionality.
Heliatek
Leading developer of organic PV and is already actively working on BIPV and putting a solar layer on concrete. So at the
forefront of many of the solar-related trends discussed in this report
Kieran
Timberlake
Kieran Timberlake’s Smart Wrap is a thin plastic film designed to envelop a building, acting as a multi-tasking, intelligent
wall. SmartWrap integrates the functions of a conventional wall and combines them into composite that insulates, stores
energy, and digitally regulates temperature, as well as providing and controlling light.
Sage
Electrochromics
Leading provider of electrochromic smart windows and subsidiary of Saint-Gobain. The Saint-Gobain connections
potentially strengthens the business both financially and in terms of supply chains
SLIPS
Technologies
Well-funded start-up developing ultra-slippery surfaces. Omniphobic coatings likely to be used extensively in next-
generation smart skins and coatings from this firm may have the required functionality
View Another leading smart windows supplier, that has been able to attract substantial recent funding

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