Codarin, Sara (2020) Innovative construction systems within building processes: An approach to large-scale robotic additive layer manufacturing for the conservation of cultural heritage. PhD thesis, University of Ferrara, Italy.
Abstract
The inevitability of the Fourth Industrial Revolution highlights the current lack of innovation within the building process, where the construction site continues to refer strongly to methods rooted in building traditions and tradicular choices. While the industry construction must manage risks based on economics, labor, and safety, new technologies highlight the need to identify new methodologies to enhance roles construction. Interventions carried out according to a digital data-driven strategy can respond to the growing demand for higher quality with prediclatble times in a complex environment and the need to the satisfaction of environmental, social, and economic sustainability. In the current age of automation, it is possible to imagine connecting design and manufacturing in a single workflow with the aim of bringing smart tools from industrial manufacturing such as robots to the building site for the conservation of Cultural Heritage. The protection of the site and building existing elements would be customizing the on-site operations in a responsive way with respect to the characteristics of boundary conditions compartment and consolidation of automated equipment. The creation of a workflow is intended not as a standardization of the design outcomes, but as an updating of the technical phases, combining the technological with the cultural instances. Given the projectory of digital transformation as an emerging ecosystem, a new conception of the master-builder might represent a balanced point between the advancing technological level in architectural construction methods and the artisanal approach that interventions on Cultural Heritage. The new master-builder constitutes a synthetic figure between the various actors operating in the complex building process. The new master-builder can be also the promoter of the project culture and the supervisor of all the design - construction - management activities that take place in the digital continuum. Decades of positive outcomes industry and recent research advancements in CAD/CAM, with focus on additive manufacturing, allow for the successful evaluation of experiments on the production of customized units technological units and informed digital architectures.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Doctoral) |
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| Thesis advisor: | Bregasi, Ledian and Di Giulio, Roberto |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | robotics; 3D printing; cultural heritage; conservation; fourth industrial revolution |
| Index terms: | strategy, construction site, building site, experiment, construction method, builder, customizing, 3D printing, building process, workflow, promoter, construction system, additive manufacturing, methodology, transformation, boundary condition, new technology, satisfaction, supervisor, automation, conservation, economic sustainability, standardization, site operation, robotics, fourth industrial revolution |
| Subjects: | sociology, management, performance measurement, site and location studies, work location, project delivery, technology adoption, business, data collection methods, building construction, research methods, manufacturing engineering, structural engineering, automation and robotics, operations management, construction manufacturing, environmental policy, economic analysis, innovation and technology management, manufacturing, practitioner |
| Topics: | Site Management, Digital Applications, Roles and Professions, Stakeholder Management, Research Practice, Business Strategy, Quality Management, Sustainability, Project Management, Geographical Context, Engineering Principles |
| Descriptive scope: | 4 PCTE |
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