ABSTRACT
Technological developments and innovative solutions provide people for years now with abundant opportunities to adapt and change the building system and its products, assuming the entire building chain acknowledges and accepts the fact that a fundamental shift is inescapable, not for the sake of change as such but for the sake of the interest of the entire chain, including the inhabitant and therefore the well‐being of the community. Where early projects originated in too often premature innovations, anticipated technology, or a desired focus on flexibility/adaptability, these topics now can join forces; technological developments today and tomorrow facilitate what decades ago was only anticipated or envisioned. This is not “limited” to digital developments; e.g., more precise tools in close combination with improved machinery facilitate larger numbers of standardized/modular elements, thus decreasing prices. At the same time, many materials – be it for building or for infrastructure – are tagged, i.e., recognizable and traceable.
