CCU is the better of the two methods to take meaningful steps towards carbon neutrality, as it puts the carbon to use straight away with less risk of it escaping.
It is through collaborative approaches like this between government and the private sector that we can achieve value-driven transformation of the sector and bring enormous benefit to the built environment and society more broadly.. On 8 July 2020, Chancellor Rishi Sunak committed funding to modern methods of construction in his Plan for Jobs..The story continues.The use of robotics in the Architecture, Engineering and Construction industry is very appealing, mainly because of the increase in productivity and quality that automation is expected to achieve..
In order to fully realise these benefits, though, the industry must first question which of our current processes should be automated and which should be re-thought..Many technologies, such as 6-axis industrial robotic arms, have not yet been fully explored, due to:.The complexity involved in construction processes.
The requirement of specialist robotic programming skills.Technical and financial risks that limit the possible uses of robotic arm technology.
To address these issues and to connect robotic technology to Bryden Wood’s ‘Platform Approach’ to Design for Manufacture and Assembly (P-DfMA), our Creative Technologies team has developed F.R.A.C.
– a Framework for Robotics and Automated Construction.. F.R.A.C.The building’s landmark status comes from the culmination of many years of thinking and development.
It delivers a raft of benefits to the built environment and significant reductions in embodied and operational carbon..Embodied carbon calculations were undertaken by Cundall, on behalf of Landsec.
Cundall updated the calculations at every stage of design, from the Business as Usual (BaU) design in 2018, the incorporation of P-DfMA by Bryden Wood in 2019, through to completion in 2023.The BaU scheme was a traditionally designed office building with a steel frame and a concrete slab, a large basement beneath both buildings and gas fired heating system.
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