As the technology advances new industrial revolutions appear: the first was the steam engine; The second, mass production; The third, the use of information technology and the fourth would be industrialized construction. You want to know more? Keep reading the NIBUG’s blog.
The idea of industrial revolutions is to automate processes and improve the distribution of resources in the construction sector.
What technologies and processes are included in the 4.0 build?
- Using 3D models and augmented reality: this way: it helps decision making and allows the client and the agents involved to see from a real scenario how the building will be.
- Cloud Computing: allows multiple people to work at the same time and from different geographical points, using the cloud. The information is permanently stored on the Internet.
- Interoperability: is the exchange of information openly through IFC protocols without relying on technology or manufacturers. In construction, IFC objects represent information models, formed by a set of classes. Software with IFC support is able to read, write and exchange information with other programs. Thus, we have objects capable of transmitting their properties and functions.
- Use of robotics: the use of robots that will replace humans in the most dangerous construction tasks or to do more repetitive tasks.
- The IoT, the connection of objects: technological solutions that allow to know the state of the structures, to help the preventive maintenance.
- Use of methodologies applied to construction: such as BIM (Building Information Modeling) or Lean Construction. The BIM manages data and information that manages the entire complete cycle of the building while Lean Construction optimizes the production processes.
- 3D printing: this way of building is transformed the manufacture of houses. 3D printing allows you to reduce costs, times. In addition to using transportable machines and using materials resistant but sustainable for the environment.
Thus, it could be said that the Construction 4.0 is a management philosophy that allows the application of new technologies to optimize the work processes and go including improvements and innovations in the sector.
In NIBUG we work to make projects that allow the interoperability, the use of new technologies applied to the construction to reduce costs and execution times and to optimize processes.
