Image: Hadrian X in action (FBR Ltd)
The company that manufactures the bricklaying robot Hadrian X has entered a series of agreements with housebuilders to use the machine to build demonstration homes.
Fastbrick Australia, a joint venture between Hadrian X inventor Fastbrick Robotics (FBR) and Australian building supplies company Brickworks Building Products, hopes the agreements will get traction for its “Wall-as-a-Service” concept in Australia and Mexico.
In Australia the agreements see Fastbrick using its robotics technology to build structures to the housebuilders’ designs for testing before proceeding to build an entire demo home and then a home for purchase.
FBR has entered a partnership with Western Australian housebuilder Summit Homes Group. This followed a similar agreement in September with Perth-based boutique building and design company, Archistruct Builders and Designers.
It has also teamed up with GP Vivienda, the housing division of Mexican construction giant Grupo GP, to test robot-built structures and the viability of FBR’s adhesive in use with blocks common in Mexico. In this agreement, the parties committed to analysing the results of the tests but stopped short of pledging to build a demo home or a home for sale.
Of the Mexican agreement, FBR’s global managing director and chief executive Mike Pivac said: “FBR sees the Hadrian X as part of the solution to Mexico’s acute shortage of well-constructed affordable homes, with a deficit of approximately 8.3 million affordable homes in the country.”
Image: Hadrian X in action (FBR Ltd)
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I’m still a bit unclear as to how they would deal with ensuring excess mortar is cleared from cavities, then cavity ties and insulation are installed.
The H&S assessment for people working closely to this machinery would be lengthy and need plenty of training and supervision too.
While a step in the right direction for the UK The use of brick or block load bearing walls for low rise housing is very much the dark ages Use wood framing or metal studs The USA so much more advanced that the UK in hous construction Better value for money The British Builders have to get rid of these old fashion methodss