These ambitions, translated to the built environment, can only be achieved via the implementation of measures to reduce operational and embodied carbon of new buildings, upgrading existing buildings, the use of ambitious policies and crucially via a decarbonised grid..
Ultimately, this means that many important uses for construction technology are being missed.For example, we should be tracking how much movement there was in a column as it was being pulled in, and the bending.
We need to be asking questions about how the concrete cured.This type of work has an important impact in terms of predictive maintenance.If we understand exactly how the concrete cured and what went on in that process, we’ll know what stresses might be left in the building, thereby creating a long-term, high-value impact of that data.
In fact, some of the sensors needed to undertake this type of work are incredibly inexpensive.They could easily be placed inside a concrete mix, and would simply broadcast for the next five years uninterrupted.. At Bryden Wood, we anticipate that this type of construction technology work could also fuel the next generation of concrete mixes, as well as influencing the type of AI technology that’s starting to plan schedules and program onsite.
Logistics could also be affected.
Essentially, there is a massive, potential long-term benefit to gathering this type of data.“Companies should be seeing this as a massive opportunity in shaping themselves,” Johnston says, “positioning themselves to see it as a benefit and not saying: ‘I hope this passes me by and I can avoid making some of the big shifts.’”.
Marks reiterates that the shift to industrialised construction is going to take everyone’s involvement.All of the key players need to recognise their own dissatisfaction and start making changes.. “I don’t just feel the shift,” she says.
“I’m holding on some days because I’m getting knocked over from the shift!”.The thing that will make the biggest difference at the moment, she says, is the productisation - connecting those products upfront in the platform to provide connectivity for designers and makers.. “And I think that's why what you're doing at Bryden Wood is so cool.