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How We
Build Now
Technology and Industry Trends Shaping the
UAE and Saudi Arabia’s Construction in 2023

Zineb Teuber, Product Marketing Manager

How We Build Now
The ‘How We Build Now’ benchmark report was commissioned
by leading global construction management software provider,
Procore Technologies.

Surveying decision makers across the UAE and Saudi Arabia,

the research examined the sentiment of the industry, its level of
digital maturity, and the challenges and opportunities facing
firms as they seek to drive productivity, profit and performance.

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 Who’s very confident about the construction
industry’s market conditions over the next 12
months?
 Nearly half of construction business leaders
in the MENA region say that they are very
confident about conditions in the sector over
48% the next 12 months.

0% of the respondents are 'not confident at all'.

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 Challenges create opportunities

80%

said the current economic/industry volatility

(e.g. inflation, supply chain challenges) has
increased the level of investment in digital
transformation within their business over the
past three to six months.

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Focus Areas for Construction Businesses

Productivity & Talent Attraction Sustainability

Profitability & Retention
Productivity and Profitability

25% 26%

One in four business leaders Over one quarter of business leaders said they
estimate that one quarter of project can achieve reduced project costs if data could be
time (25%) is spent rectifying building more efficiently captured and integrated according
issues. to business leaders.
Talent Attraction & Retention

When asked if they are confident their workforce has

– or will have – the necessary skills for the needs of
the business over the next 12 months, nearly half
(44%) of construction leaders expressed full
26% confidence.

Half (50%) said that they are ‘somewhat confident’.

 Sustainability

91% 51%
say decarbonisation of their construction are actively tracking carbon emissions on
projects will be an important challenge for projects, and three in ten (30%) say it is in
them over the next three years. their plan for the next 12 months.
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