Shankar SankaranProfessor Organizational Project Management| University of Technology SydneyDee Why, Australia
The construction industry has been undergoing a remarkable transformation, in part due to the integration of digital technologies. How will adoption of digital technologies (such as robotics, drones, Intelligent sensors and artificial intelligence) improve productivity in construction projects while enhancing safety and well-being of workers? Saving Changes...
Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten AssociatesNew Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Shankar, the utilization of technology on construction projects is already proving to have significant positive impact on productivity and significant decrease in safety incidents and I trust this will just get better from here. Saving Changes...
I'll elaborate on Rami's response with a personal example. Many years ago, I worked as a land surveyor on construction sites. Locating layout points could be a laborious process in a sometimes dangerous environment working close to heavy excavating machinery that could crush me and would routinely dig up bee hives making my day extra-unpleasant. Some days I had to climb down culverts full of tracks from potentially unhappy animals.
Now there are robotic total stations which can automatically level themselves, assist site layout and staking, and scan/record as-built information. The robots can be faster, more accurate, less expensive to replace if destroyed than humans, continue to operate in swarms of bees, and immune to rabies. Saving Changes...
Shankar SankaranProfessor Organizational Project Management| University of Technology SydneyDee Why, Australia
Thanks Rami and Keith, Thanks for those examples Keith. Have you experienced examples of robots and humans working together at construction sites?
...
1 reply by Keith Novak
Dec 15, 2023 5:34 PM
Keith Novak
...
I have not witnessed them personally as I'm no longer in that industry however there are multiple semi-autonomous systems currently available such as one operator controlling multiple excavators. Using drones for painting 3D surfaces is another example however I don't know if they have moved past trials and into production.
Unlike self-driving cars, some construction environments can be easier to implement autonomous vehicles because site access can be controlled and the vehicles can talk to each other for requirements like separation, unlike self-driving cars on the roads with human drivers.
Thanks Rami and Keith, Thanks for those examples Keith. Have you experienced examples of robots and humans working together at construction sites?
I have not witnessed them personally as I'm no longer in that industry however there are multiple semi-autonomous systems currently available such as one operator controlling multiple excavators. Using drones for painting 3D surfaces is another example however I don't know if they have moved past trials and into production.
Unlike self-driving cars, some construction environments can be easier to implement autonomous vehicles because site access can be controlled and the vehicles can talk to each other for requirements like separation, unlike self-driving cars on the roads with human drivers. Saving Changes...
Shankar SankaranProfessor Organizational Project Management| University of Technology SydneyDee Why, Australia
"In the real world, the right thing never happens in the right place and the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to make it appear that it has."
Community Champion
