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Looking toward the future: the role of Advanced Technology in Housing
Jonathan D. Linton, PhD, PEngDirector, Emerging Technology Supply Chain Management Research Centre, University of Sheffield
Foreign Head of Laboratory, Science and Technology Studies Laboratory, Higher School of Economics Moscow
Why Technology Now?
•Reduce Risk
•Reduce Cost
Putting Technology Into Place
• Problem identification
• Solution Search
• Solution Selection
• Adoption
• Implementation
• Routinizaton or Abandonment
Different Challenges/Different Solutions
• Adapt to New Regulations• Safety
• Environmental
• Improve quality• Precision
• reliability
• Reduce reliance on external factors• Labour
• Imports
But What About Risk?
https://www.gamechangers.technology/technology-readiness-levels/
Unanticipated Value from Technology
https://www.miss-thrifty.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/sell-your-mobile-phone.jpg
3%
Improving Technology Vocabulary & Awareness
• Additive Manufacture
• Artificial Intelligence
• Augmented reality
• Block chain
• Close loop construction
• Drones
• Internet of things
• Micro grids
• Modular build
• Non-traditional materials
• Robotics
• Sensor Arrays
• Virtual reality
Additive manufacture
• Building-up versus taking away
• Self-assembling structures
https://www.3dnatives.com/en/3d-
printing-construction-310120184/
https://www.dezeen.com/2019/02/
27/gaia-wasp-3d-printed-house-
biodegradable-video/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/ne
ws/technology-44709534
Artificial Intelligence
• Software that processes tremendous amounts of data quickly • Finds useful patterns
• Finds outliers
• Decision Making and Over Time Learning
http://www.waldeckconsulting.com/artificial-intelligence-transforming-construction-industry
Augmented reality
• Addition of visuals to the existing world
• Overlaying information onto what we currently see
https://beyonddesign.typepad.com/posts/2016/10/augmented-
reality-the-next-interface-for-design-and-making.html
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/news/view/augmented-reality-
coming-to-a-construction-site-near-you
Block chain
• A ledger/documentation that is stored in many places at the same time
• Any addition happens in all places simultaneously
• Ensures that everyone can trust the accuracy of the information
https://enstoa.com/blog/can-blockchain-fix-construction-industrys-productivity-problem
Close loop construction
• Design and operation so that components and materials can be used in a high value application at the time of disposal
http://betonika.lt/en/about-us/kokyb-ir-aplinkosauga
Drones
• Driverless vehicles used to collect information via sensors
https://www.google.com/search?q=drones+construction&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi
799mSj6HjAhX4QUEAHWxaDJ8Q_AUIESgC#imgrc=aO8udutpgA8s_M:
Internet of things
• Connecting things with people and each other using the internet
• Can be used for monitoring, control and is an enabler for AI
https://www.bachly.com/the-internet-of-things/
Micro grids
• Management of electrical supply and demand locally
https://www.totemcontracting.com/service/microgrids/
Modular build
• Use of manufacturing techniques to build either components or complete structures
https://www.google.com/search?q=modular+build+construction&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved
=0ahUKEwjpoN-5j6HjAhX3QUEAHfs0CEAQ_AUIECgB#imgrc=X4Zt7iVt6d7_2M:
https://www.memerycrystal.com/articles/modular-construction/
Non-traditional materials
• Use of engineered materials to obtain properties not available in with traditionally used construction materials
Robotics
• Electro-mechanical machines that follow a set of instructions to automatically achieve one or more tasks
https://www.google.com/search?q=robotics+construction&s
ource=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi8rfHCj6HjAhW
Qi1wKHQw8DTsQ_AUIECgB#imgrc=PQX6uCGXQqqlgM:
https://www.design-engineering.com/construction-robots-
1004029539-1004029539/
Sensor Arrays
• Inexpensive sensors that are used to collect information that can be used for provision of data for monitoring or decision making purposes
https://www.idtechex.com/de/research-report/printed-and-flexible-
sensors-2017-2027-technologies-players-forecasts/504
Virtual Reality
• Computer simulation of a three-dimensional image and/or environment.
• Provides a user with an interactive experience
https://pocketsizedhands.com/blog/howwillvirtualand
augmentedrealityimpacttheconstructionindustry/
https://www.urbanrealm.com/news/6801/University
_of_Strathclyde_demonstrate_augmented_and_virt
ual_reality_construction_tool.html
5G
• More responsive than 4G - less time for data to travel and be reacted upon
• About two orders of magnitude faster
https://tryupdates.com/how-evolution-of-5g-networks/
Parting Words…
• Technology is neither good nor bad
• Many technologies low risk as they have been developed
and applied in other fields
• Need experience to figure out exactly what value a specific
technology can offer you
• Best place to start is to consider a current problem and look
for a technology solution to assist you with this problem
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