Smart Cities 2025: Leading the Future of Sustainable Living By Kamal Hinduja

Research indicates that urban areas worldwide will increase their population to 70% by 2050. Urbanization leads the planet toward an economy that functions primarily from cities. The increasing population of cities necessitates fundamental transformations for better adaptation.

Urban development produces economic expansion alongside better living conditions together with wider multiculturalism. New statistical evidence illustrates this pattern because the world’s urban population grew from 751 million in 1950 to 4.4 billion today. Urban expansion will probably lead to a doubling of present urban populations by 2050.

The urban resident population now exceeds 56 percent worldwide. The city population surge requires many people to find cost-effective housing solutions yet creates the risk of poor living conditions and pollution alongside intensified conflicts and social disparities.

Sustainable development commitment is essential to resolve these issues through infrastructure construction along with the creation of efficient services and robust transport systems and enough job opportunities and essential services. These preventive measures serve as essential components for sustaining cities as inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable areas.

The Necessity to Transform the Construction Industry

Two years after its establishment in 2008 Intelligent City co-founders Oliver Lang and Cindy Wilson started their organization focused on resolving three problems which developed throughout the previous twenty years. The three main challenges which Intelligent City addresses include climate change growth alongside urban housing affordability shortages and inadequate technological adoption by the construction sector.

They recognized these major global concerns around fifteen years ago then initiated a search for solutions which could be effectively scaled up for these big problems. The creation of Intelligent City occurred because Lang reflects on this process.

The urbanization strategy demands the construction of cities equal to Shanghai or New York every month for the upcoming quarter century. The construction of a city the size of Shanghai or New York every month for the next twenty-five years must happen while preserving high standards of life for generations to come.

Intelligent City claims to represent a modern industrialized approach to construction and advanced manufacturing that leads to carbon-neutral buildings. The company starts its manufacturing operations for verified building systems eligible under the high-rise mass timber building code thanks to AI integration and software automation along with robotic technologies according to Lang.

Intelligent City CTO Krieg acknowledges that construction traditionally operates as a single one-off project which brings many entities together to build onsite through design and engineering. A model operating since the beginning of the century has not gone through any major evolution.

The approach continues to operate through a structured hierarchy according to Krieg even after software has been incorporated into planning. The productized approach dominates different sectors of the economy. He states that "In laptop or car manufacturing industry the product design and engineering occur before customer selection of the product."

According to Krieg the transformation of construction requires industrial development through systematic product-based approaches which allow customization capabilities.

This transformation would decrease the standard duration of two-to-three years for building construction thus improving efficiency and speed. Intelligent City created a platform enabling designers to produce buildings using customized specifications from one core building framework. The platform delivers both scalabilities together with customizability requirements during construction processes.

Lang identifies the successful implementation of proportionate scaling as the critical element for producing substantial amounts of housing at reasonable prices.

Implementing mass timber products serves as a strategic decision. According to Lang mass timber represents "thicker engineered timber that enables high-rise building while being user friendly for prefabrication and environmentally sustainable." He states that this material uses Canadian resources to build sustainable housing with increased efficiency.

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