Scott Greer is a Partner at King and Spalding LLP. Scott, who is also a licensed Professional Engineer, focuses exclusively on the practice of construction law, representing some of the world's largest organizations in their global construction projects. He represents owners and developers in the development of a wide range of projects, regularly exceeding $100 million to over $40 billion in value and located throughout the United States, Latin America, Middle East, Europe, Africa and Asia.
At first I thought smart contract was a separate contract document, but that’s not the case. It's just a matter of a few addendums to model contract documents. If anything, the hardest part is deciding what automatic reporting functions should be sending data to the blockchain. Make sure what you want to automate is something the computer can actually do.
Efficiencies in design, construction and building use are being unlocked thanks to analysis and proactive changes informed by construction data. Even 3D printing for a NASA project on structures on Mars is on the table.