Western Australia’s Fastbrick robot building home in three days a ‘world-first’

Re:Western Australia’s Fastbrick robot building home in thre... by metaphor on Thursday November 15, 2018 @04:12AM (#18457932)

By this sample residential construction schedule for a 6,000 sq-ft custom home[1], it looks like they've theoretically managed to cut a 9-day job down to 3 without addressing the negotiation of foundation imperfections, plumbing, electrical, rebar reinforcement, air gaps, structural arches, and random site obstructions to name a few. Cool tech and surely a step in the right direction, but if we're still talking about affordable (patented, proprietary blocks?), sustainable (mortar substitute reliability?) housing that meets code, color me unconvinced.

Heimo Scheuch, CEO of Wienerberger AG: In times of digitalization, high demand for affordable housing and the prevailing shortage of skilled workers, the construction industry is facing major challenges.[2]

Prevailing shortage of skilled construction workers??

[1] https://www.b4ubuild.com/resources/schedule/6kproj.shtml

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qcyvoCtZB0

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Re:Western Australia’s Fastbrick robot building home in thre... by AstralStorm on Thursday November 15, 2018 @04:22AM (#18457972)

There is no shortage of workers, but a shortage of workers who want to do heavy physical labor for almost free and storage of training for free.

Nobody wants to actually invest in work.

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