Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is optimizing and automating the construction industry. RPA is all about integrating software and robots into traditional construction work processes, where they can perform the job faster, more accurately, and more consistently than human labor.
Where some worry about RPA replacing humans on the job, RPA is often applied in ways that help businesses and teams work more effectively. When projects become faster and more affordable, demand increases and human labor is freed from repetitive and tedious tasks.
Robotics, drones, and wearable electronics are also revolutionizing Building Information Modeling (BIM). Automation delivers higher accuracy in less time, while creating detailed, digital reports as a matter of course.
One example of robots on the construction site is Dusty Robotics in California.
They’ve developed robot-powered tools for the modern construction workforce, including automated layout robots that bring fully detailed digital building models to the field for error-free construction.
These Roomba-like robots are live on construction sites today, automating the layout process by printing full-size floor plans on the deck for builders. The Dusty Robotics FieldPrinter even lays out multiple trades simultaneously, helping to prevent clashes in construction.
Another company deploying robots to the construction site is Canvas, where they have reinvented drywall finishing using on-site robotics. The problems solved are dealing with skilled labor shortages, increasing building demand, and the rising costs of building. By turning drywall finishing from a manual process of variable quality into an exact science, Canvas delivers better than Level 5+ finishes every time while reducing typical cycle time from 7 to 2 days.
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Drones are showing up more and more on construction sites. They have proven they can deliver excellent results when it comes to pre-construction site review, aerial surveying and mapping, the measuring of excavation work, and the monitoring of material stockpiles.
Drones are used to inspect work that is difficult or dangerous from human inspectors, and their bird’s eye view can deliver data to architects and designers in ways that have never before been available.
We automatically think of drones as a visual resource, but today these unmanned aerial vehicles are being equipped with a variety of advanced sensors. These include LiDAR (laser detection and measuring) and GPS, along with thermal sensors, gas, and moisture sensors.
The potential of drones to improve construction efficiency, improve safety for humans on site, and lower costs over many manual operations is just beginning and the years ahead will continue to call on this new technology like never before.
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Wearables entering the construction industry include smart helmets and smart boots, health monitors, enhanced safety vests, and more. Let’s look at a couple of these.
A lot of new technology is being incorporated into the traditional safety vest. These include cooling technology that cam move up to 5 gallons of air per second with a battery able to last through 24 hours of continuous use. The goal is to keep workers cool in hot and humid environments, preventing heat related injuries.
Integrating health sensors allows managers to see in real time who may be overheating or having heart problems. Sensors can even relay slips and trips, aggregating the data over the entire work crew and identifying dangerous areas or areas experiencing dangerous conditions at a specific time.
Smart helmets and smart glasses are being used to provide workers with blueprints, specifications, and maps as hands free data so that they no longer need to struggle with folding paper or electronic tablets on site.
As with every revolution in capability, we can expect many things to be tried and for the most useful to be embraced for their proven benefits.
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