Automated Construction - Test Input

divided the countries into 5 categories 5 (figure 1); the
groups are: low income, $1,025 or less; lower middle
income, $1,026 - $4,035; upper middle income,
$4,036 - $12,475; and high income, $12,476 or
more. According to this information, the WB call the
NIC, “transition economies”, about 28% (figure 2) of
the population of the world is part of this classification.
This also means that more than a quarter of the
world population is making the transition into developed
economies, better industries, better possibilities
of human development, and also in a need of
new solutions for the urban and housing conditions
to improve their quality of life.
Fig. 1 Gross national product per capita, World Bank 6
Fig. 2 Distribution of world population among countries
grouped by product per capita, 1999. World Bank 6
In the next decades, the NIC will have a chance to
change the way their population will live. New opportunities
for industry, finances and services will appear,
together with more challenges in the environmental
areas, urban planning and human development.
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The fast growing of this economies, that represent
so much people in the world, the construction industry
has to be ready to react in the same velocity to
the issues that will come with the development of
this countries.
Comparison between NIC and IC
By comparing the NIC and the IC construction industry,
can be concluded that automation in Construction
is a milestone to the proper develop of the Construction
industry in NIC, and a way to help those
counties to have a sustainable develop.
Tropicalization of automation is an actual need for
developing countries with growing population and
the increase of mega cities. NIC should develop their
own technology and techniques, they should use
their specific resources and a create awareness to
the advantages that automation will bring to develop
of those nations; NIC should recognize that automation
is not a reason to lost jobs but to create a better
working conditions, and to improve the quality of life.
The comparison between NIC and IC, has follow
certain parameters that affect the population and
construction industry, such as life quality, natural
disasters, response to the growth of urban areas,
industry and social changes.
Life quality.- Japan has achieved very high level of
technology. Their innovations especially in the building
industry could reduce the cost of housing and
increase the number of houses build. For the first
time in 2008 more than half of the world population
lives in the cities; 13 of the 20 largest metropolitan
areas are located developing countries, and there is
a huge need to provide homes for all those people,
fast, small and flexible. From this list 7 of the 20th
more populated cities only London(38th), New
York(47th) , Kobe(49th) and Tokyo(46th) are located
between the 50th cities with best quality of life, the
rest are not even mentioned.
Enormous megalopolis such as Mexico City, Sao
Paulo, Dehli, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Shanhai,
Beijing, Jakarta, Istambul etc. Have a very low life
quality because of several reasons, from over population
to an insufficient public transportation, with the
exception of plenty of cities China, and some efforts
in Mexico city and Istanbul to have subways, built in
the last decades and mainly with the help of tunneling
machines (also considered automation in construction),
many of this cities from NIC countries
don’t have an underground network, one or the worst
examples is Jakarta, with more than 28 million habitants
and a poor public transportation system (figure
3).