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New skills, different jobs: Mace prepares for construction 4.0

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  1. It’s ok making broad statements that within 22 years 90% of the building workforce won’t be needed, but the article doesn’t explain how these roles are going to be carried out by robots or drones and the amount of back up needed to manage, set up, enable and maintain the use of MH, robots and drones.
    The only way it could work is if the AI and robotic dexterity is an improvement on the Mark One Human.

  2. My main problem with the tech-driven and manufacturing-driven improvement agendas is not that the ideas themselves aren’t any good. They will make some marginal improvement.

    But will they overcome the core reasons why construction has become much less efficient and effective over the years. In the late 1920s the builders of the Empire State Building didn’t have BIM, Big Data, or drones. But they did put up a building in just over a year. 90 years later when No.1 WTC was built to replace the Twin Towers, it took over eight times as long to build and cost about 6-8 times as much. They did have computers, P6, BIM, and a whole host of tech.

    It’s no good adding “sticking plaster” improvements onto an industry that needs some major surgery.

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