The situation is becoming real everywhere, and it’s creating a real appetite for new solutions.. COP 26: the Global South and nuclear energy.
The shift offers a range of benefits across the construction life cycle.Working this way, components or systems (including those related to platform design (P-DfMA), or in some cases modular construction) can be more readily fabricated in off-site facilities and transported to site for final assembly.
On-site operations can also model themselves on manufacturing processes to provide higher efficiencies, predictability and reduce waste.In addition, this creates many more opportunities to implement automation and digital tools, particularly in off-site manufacturing..Previously, we have covered the general benefits of discrete event simulation (DEM) in construction (https://www.brydenwood.co.uk/discreteeventsimulation/s97989/), and the increasing use of these powerful tools as a core part of automation in construction.
The need for these tools is on the rise as design and construction continue to tackle some of the largest issues an industry could face: low and declining productivity, poor predictability, shrinking workforce and skills shortages.Other industries have been able to embrace new approaches and technologies to see continual year-on-year increases in labour productivity and other areas.
As we move towards the future, construction firms will need to embrace construction automation and MMC, to create positive transformation in the industry.. Case study: DES for analysis of automated truss fabrication.
Recently, Bryden Wood has collaborated with Tata Steel and the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) on the FASTtruss project for automated design and fabrication of steel truss assemblies, for medium-to-large-span buildings.The idea was to investigate the embedded moral decisions made by autonomous cars in dangerous situations.
The results are interesting in that they showed, unsurprisingly that different individuals and cultures gave different responses.Whose do we use?
These decisions have real-life implications.. ‘We better be sure that the purpose put into the machine is the purpose we really desire,’ Norbert Weiner stated in 1960..In 2021, Stewart Russell OBE (Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley) in his Reith Lectures expressed some principles that he had co-developed to make the development of AI positive and safe.. Altruism – AI is there solely to improve human outcomes and purpose.