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Changing Building Sites: Industrialisation and Automation of the Building Process
Author(s) -
Bock Thomas,
Langenberg Silke
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.1762
Subject(s) - industrialisation , industrial revolution , automation , process (computing) , building automation , engineering , engineering management , machine building , regional science , architectural engineering , political science , economic history , engineering ethics , sociology , computer science , history , law , mechanical engineering , operating system , physics , thermodynamics
The introduction of robotics in construction is part of a much longer history of industrialisation and automation on the building site. Thomas Bock of the Technical University of Munich and Silke Langenberg of the University of Applied Sciences, Munich, highlight how the Industrial Revolution and the development of a transport infrastructure in the 18th and 19th centuries in Europe first triggered the shift in the building trade from a largely localised industry into a national and mechanised one, leading to the highly advanced automated construction techniques that continue to be developed in Japan and other Asian countries to this day.