Brackets are designed in a way that they can only be installed correctly (referred to as ‘poka-yoke’ in manufacturing) making it impossible for an error to occur or making the error immediately obvious.
Many technologies, such as 6-axis industrial robotic arms, have not yet been fully explored, due to:.The complexity involved in construction processes.
The requirement of specialist robotic programming skills.Technical and financial risks that limit the possible uses of robotic arm technology.To address these issues and to connect robotic technology to Bryden Wood’s ‘Platform Approach’ to Design for Manufacture and Assembly (P-DfMA), our Creative Technologies team has developed F.R.A.C.
– a Framework for Robotics and Automated Construction.. F.R.A.C.provides an open, extensible and collaborative platform that enables all designers – not only specialists – to engage with robotic technologies and to embed digital manufacture workflows into their everyday design activities.. F.R.A.C.
is an easy to use digital workflow that connects industry standard design software to robotic technology tools, using custom apps to provide:.
XR environments for design and process interaction.It is becoming clear across the industry that LETI benchmarks for MEP are likely underestimated..
Embodied carbon analysis.When reviewing the building against benchmarks for WLC, including the LETI extrapolated targets, the buildings perform well against 2020 targets.
Again, the buildings hit the current GLA benchmark, albeit the façade performance is higher than the GLA expects.However, were this building to be designed now to achieve LETI/RIBA 2030 targets further learnings need to be taken forward..
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