ELITE CONSTRUCTION VOL3 ISSUE11

For those who worry about how this could affect their jobs, the good news is that this type
of robots still need heavily human supervision for tasks like set up, lay bricks at diff’icult
angles, as well as safety and clearing up purposes, so even if automation were inevitable all
these robots and machines will still need a skilled human workforce to function properly.
The multinational professional services network Price Waterhouse Coopers forecasts that it
won’t be until 2030s that jobs in the UK could be at risk of automation.
Factory f’loors, factory-built homes
The construction industry revolution is not only based on machines and drones f’lying
over the building sites. The revolution also involves factory f’loors where homes are
manufactured by robots.
Factory-built homes are more popular in countries like Sweden and Japan – where
40% and 16% of residential buildings, are built with prefabrication, but they are
expected to gradually have an important presence in the UK market to help combat the
housing shortage.
Boosting productivity in the construction f’ield won’t be easy. But in a multi-billion industry
like this one, even the slightest improvement in eff’iciency could amount to millions in
savings. Some of Britain’s biggest construction f’irms are aware of it and, therefore, experts
say that automation in the industry is just around the corner.
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