Productivity of Digital Fabrication in Construction (2018-05)¶

Cost and Time-Analysis of a Robotically Built Wall

10.1016/j.autcon.2018.04.004

de Soto Borja, Agustí-Juan Isolda, Hunhevicz Jens, Joss Samuel, Graser Konrad, Habert Guillaume, Adey Bryan
Journal Article - Automation in Construction, Vol. 92, pp. 297-311

Abstract

Although automation has been actively and successfully used in different industries since the 1970s, its application to the construction industry is still rare or not fully exploited. In order to help provide the construction industry with an additional incentive to adopt more automation, an investigation was undertaken to assess the effects of digital fabrication (dfab) on productivity by analyzing the cost and time required for the construction of a robotically-fabricated complex concrete wall onsite. After defining the different tasks for the conventional and robotically fabricated concrete wall, data was collected from different sources and used in a simulation to describe the distribution of time and cost for the different construction scenarios. In the example, it was found that productivity is higher when the robotic construction method is used for complex walls, indicating that it is possible to obtain significant economic benefit from the use of additive dfab to construct complex structures. Further research is required to assess the social impacts of using dfab.

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BibTeX

@article{soto_agus_hunh_joss.2018.PoDFiC,
  author            = "Borja García de Soto and Isolda Agustí-Juan and Jens Juri Hunhevicz and Samuel Joss and Konrad Graser and Guillaume Habert and Bryan Tyrone Adey",
  title             = "Productivity of Digital Fabrication in Construction: Cost and Time-Analysis of a Robotically Built Wall",
  doi               = "10.1016/j.autcon.2018.04.004",
  year              = "2018",
  journal           = "Automation in Construction",
  volume            = "92",
  pages             = "297--311",
}

Formatted Citation

IEEE

B. G. de Soto, “Productivity of Digital Fabrication in Construction: Cost and Time-Analysis of a Robotically Built Wall”, Automation in Construction, vol. 92, pp. 297–311, 2018, doi: 10.1016/j.autcon.2018.04.004.

CMOS

Soto, Borja García de, Isolda Agustí-Juan, Jens Juri Hunhevicz, Samuel Joss, Konrad Graser, Guillaume Habert, and Bryan Tyrone Adey. “Productivity of Digital Fabrication in Construction: Cost and Time-Analysis of a Robotically Built Wall”. Automation in Construction 92 (2018): 297–311. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.autcon.2018.04.004.