Improve Automation in AEC with Computational Design

Start the course by considering how engineering and technology influence your daily life—not just high-tech devices but also ordinary machines, buildings, and infrastructure that most people take for granted. In this lecture series you will learn to notice and understand these overlooked marvels. Your House as an Engineered System 28:22 minutes In the first of four lectures on your house as a technological system, review the eight engineered subsystems that go into modern dwellings. Then discover the miracle of building codes, which ensure that every new house is safe, constructible, and reasonably economical without involving an engineer in each design.

Robots and machine vision are a perfect pair of accuracy and quality, and the demands of advanced manufacturers around the world. Machine vision robotics is a functional one-two punch with their high return on investment for the cost. In our expert panel, we’ll discuss the trends and what’s happening now in guiding robots with machine vision.

Investment in Intelligent Automation (IA) by companies is growing at a rapid rate with specialist in-house teams springing up in businesses across all sectors. The quick wins of efficiency and cost savings are the most common starting point for these programs and the first target is outsourced services that are currently handling large volumes of repetitive tasks. EDF Energy dialed down 200 outsourced FTEs within a year, and many others are doing the same.

Drones have made it cost-effective to get huge amounts of data about what goes on in day-to-day construction operations. When this real-time data is utilized, it allows for easy communication of fast-paced and ever-changing site conditions. Drone data gives us quantifiable, measurable truth of what happened on the ground, which reduces finger pointing and increases accountability and efficiency.