The case for honest timber

We’re focusing on the least amount of material, the lowest carbon materials, the highest levels of productivity.

Additionally, these deliveries will be pre-coordinated with site activities and made by autonomous vehicles.This will make sure that components arrive exactly when needed and that deliveries place the least amount of stress on local infrastructure.. A for assembly in DfMA: automation in construction and fewer operatives on site.

At Bryden Wood, we’ve started an initiative called the Framework for Robotics and Automated Construction (F.R.A.C.).The purpose is to examine how we begin to design for automation, as well as to determine what level of automation is appropriate on-site.We’ve also been exploring automation in construction at component level.

This is done via our work with Landsec and Easi Space at our Construction Platforms Research Centre in Ropley.This would include approaches like laser cutting components, and the use of autonomous reach stackers to place components.. As we move forward with automation in construction, we won’t need as many people on site.

The operatives who are there will be working much more safely, with greater productivity.

They are likely to be part of multi-skilled gangs, trained with the know-how to assemble a whole range of components, as opposed to each individual having a single trade.The project also offered the added benefit of attracting digital natives into housing construction.

: A program by the University of Sussex in association with the British Parking Association, TransPark explored how car parking could be revolutionised.With an increase in the number of electric cars on the road, and our need to be connected all the time, the program investigated how car parks could function in an integrated and digitally enabled way..

Currently, the TCN+ stakeholders are in the process of articulating their findings, and plan to share their observations with the business community over the next six months.Due to the longstanding fragmentation of the construction industry there won’t be a panacea, but most companies in the sector will find something interesting in the conclusions.