Yosep Bak - Week 1 - B1

Robotics
  
   Development of robotics and mechanical engineering has brought civil engineers one step closer to unsupervised, mechanical construction. Video shown in the link attached explains in details how a newer form of construction heavily equipped by mechanical arms and 3D printed pieces will eventually become the industry standard. The founder of Coop Himmelb(l)au, Wolf D Prix has quoted "Normally this part of the buliding witll take eight months with 160 workers on the site, butnow we need eight works on site, and it takes 12 weeks". According to this Australian Architect, the construction process we know as of now may be drastically altered in coming 10 to 20 years. This will allow constructions to be more accurate, cheaper, and safer if developed and supervised properly.

Source : https://www.dezeen.com/2015/10/23/robotic-construction-3d-printing-future-wolf-d-prix-interview/


AI

   Artificial Intelligent was simply defined as "ability for a machine to think" in the presentation by Arup director Tim Chapman. He explains what an AI is, and he convinces that the artificial intelligence will improve communications and reduce friction in development. He quotes "ability to crunch large data is crucial and AI is needed". "Artificial intelligence", according to Tim, "will increase productivity, increase efficiency, and increase big data crunching speed.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Atz4S5FceQ


 3D Printing
 
   3D printing has spread its branches far and beyond one particular industry; it now can be seen anywhere from fashion industry to biomedical engineering. Civil engineering too was impacted heavily with developing 3D printing industry. Harvard scientists have created a 3D printing pen that allows architects and engineers to give a 3D sketch. This is significant because a 3D printing pen will be able to produce sketch versions of the buildings right in front of the clients eyes. 

Source: http://readwrite.com/2016/05/27/the-next-big-thing-in-3d-printers-it4/?utm_source=feedly&utm_medium=webfeeds


Future

   Fastbrick Robotics has created a machine that is capable of constructing a typical residential house in 48 hours. Hadrian X is completely digital machine that can continue constructions with minimum supervision. This can put field engineers out of business if they don't develop themselves to integrate  with the technology.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6UPGk8EFWE


Comment

Andrew Ng: I completely agree that BIM is adapted as the industry standard at this point; You've referenced that 71% already use BIM in 2012, I can only imagine that the percentage has only gone up.

Mridul Pareek: Along with BIM, 3D printing, and AI integration, sensor technology has a large room for improvement. It was great to learn that older models required less power, but wasn't as accurate. Maybe this is a part of digital building's expertise.

Alex Koo: As you mentioned, Cybernetics is capable of essentially ultimately combining the human and the machine. That information is pertinent because it already showed promising results such as treating Parkinson's disease. I hope with integration of AI into cybernetics will essentially ultimately reap promising results in not only the medical industry, but in wider array of fields.