Changing Building Sites: Industrialisation and Automation of the Building Process. (May 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Bock, Thomas; Langenberg, Silke; Gramazio, Fabio; Kohler, Matthias
• Is Part Of: Architectural design. Volume 84:Number 3(2014:May/Jun.)
• Page Start: 88
• Page End: 99
• Publication Date: 2014-05
• Subjects: 729
• DOI: 10.1002/ad.1762
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0003-8504

Abstract

<abstract abstract-type="main" xml:lang="en"> <title>Abstract</title> <p>The introduction of robotics in construction is part of a much longer history of industrialisation and automation on the building site. <bold>Thomas Bock</bold> of the Technical University of Munich and <bold>Silke Langenberg</bold> of the University of Applied Sciences, Munich, highlight how the Industrial Revolution and the development of a transport infrastructure in the 18th and 19th centuries in Europe first triggered the shift in the building trade from a largely localised industry into a national and mechanised one, leading to the highly advanced automated construction techniques that continue to be developed in Japan and other Asian countries to this day.</p> </abstract>