Are Bricklaying Robots the Future of Construction?
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- Опубліковано 25 лип 2024
- Roger looks at robotic bricklaying technology and asks the question, is the future of construction robotic? or are other materials and techniques going to take us to the next level?
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Until the day a robot can come round my house 3 hours late, eye up my wife and criticise my biscuits - I'm just not interested.
Lol
😂😂
Always found only late if the husbands still home 😂😂
Funny and true
Lol now that’s funny , love it 😂😂😂😂😂
Judging by the standard of bricklaying on some new builds I’ve seen,the machine can’t do any worse.
Building sites want it built way too fast now days that's the problem, im a bricklayer have been for many years, i see very bad work too by others, but sites today let you lay in cold and wet weather, the bricks are cheap and nasty to lay, they want it built cheap to sell for thousands, i cant work out how people buy these new builds myself they are shit and rushed!!! Blame the big money makers who rule the sites
I’ve yet to see a cement mixer a Bricky can’t destroy. I think it’s best we keep them away from million pound robots.
Strikes me as a layman that increasing demands for "green" homes will be the killer of traditional brick buildings rather than robots replacing Brickies.
Green = 🤑🤑🤑
Around my way, every new house is being built with the same boring beige render. (1) it’s render but (2) why can’t we have a mix of colours.
@@davidelliott5843 Oh…don’t worry the graffiti artists will take care of that 🤣🤣🤣
Bloody Robots, coming over here from the future and taking our jobs
Brilliant! Fucking funny
And probably our women too
Boston dynamics are probably working on that too lol.
I was bricklayer (family business), then I went to college and did industrial robotics as an engineer for a few years. I assume that larger precast units will be the future - too much complexity in bricklaying with the scaffolding and all. However, I have not met a robot that yells "where's my mud you lizard?!" or tells whopping lies at every opportunity - so the masons are safe for now.
I can recommend a guy called Hyram Abith if you need some advanced masonry doing.
@@TwoFingeredMamma my brother is a mason, and is name is in fact Hyram
@@ttfweb1 Oh dear, must suck having a family member involved with all that pedo, satanic worshiping stuff.
@@TwoFingeredMamma That's VERY subtle ...
1:47 James has done alright for himself.
Look how the trade has changed over the years I love my job but the houses we build now have hardly any detail except for soldiers over the lintel or fake flat arch! The love for the trade is mostly gone and it shows.
Could it be because the ones who pays saves money that way ? ... and not the brick layers building what they really would like to do.
@@migsvensurfing6310 at the end of the day it always comes down to the dollar I’m afraid developers don’t wanna pay for anything that isn’t absolutely necessary for the development there architects know this so nothing fancy goes in to the design
I always recall a sketch on the early 60's tv show the Telegoons. Where they were saying they had made a trench digging machine that could do the work of three men the only problem it took six men to operate it!! Keep up the good work and stay safe.
The brickie robots will start off working hard but after a few years will end up just getting stoned on the scaffold, it's the circle of life
For sure they’ll turn up late on a Monday with a battered level sling over there shoulder moan at the hoddies cos the scaffold ain’t loaded right and knock off early on Friday even though it ain’t raining u gotta luv our brickies god bless em
At least if they don't come with speakers you won't hear, "mucks too wet/dry" or "these bricks are like bananas"
"Bricks too wet"
"Alright darling, waheeeeeeeey"
"Looks like it's going to rain, let's go pub"
@@tawhite101 yeh when alls said and done u won’t b able to have a laugh and all that site banter with a robot brickie now ur good old arse hanging out of jeans brickie well that’s a different matter
Great video well done!
I think your analysis is spot on Roger. I'm pretty set that my future build won't be structural brick simply because I have in mind part pre-fab, part super insulated structural panels and steel frame. Priority is speed of construction and functionality. Nothing against bricks at all but for the same cost (with the labour) I can get a quicker and better result for the application I'm looking for. I also have 0% sentimental love for bricks. As long as it functions well and requires little maintenance, I'll consider it.
We will live alone in pods underground, just like E M Forster said in his 1909 dystopian novel 'The Machine Stops' .
Good reference! That is a fun story.
You will only be allowed to live underground if you have injected the nano technology into your veins first. The surface dwellers will be killed using the HAARP array.
I can't understand the drive to automate every job, as much as some people might hate working if they found themselves out of work for any extended period of time they are likely to slip into depression. People need a purpose in life and you don't get that sitting on your arse watching the TV.......
So how are the nation's retirees managing to cope? Fucking off to Spain on the cruise ships! I don't feel any purpose in life from my job and I expect many others don't too, perhaps even some brickies. I'd get endless enjoyment out of reading, learning, growing food, plants, doing more of my woodworking hobby and so on if I wasn't forced into a meaningless job (not just for me, it serves no useful function to society either) to buy shit I don't need that'll be picked out of a landfill by my great grandchildren as they scrape around looking for food in the 45 degree UK heat caused by people like me driving back and forth to a meaningless job everyday.
But we definitely shouldn't automate brickies, they produce tangible, societally useful products in an energy efficient manner. They should be forced to hand mix their own cement though, instead of getting that bloody noisy mixing robot to do it for them, the lazy bastards.
@@ricos1497 get a different job or a new look on life.
@@mattjameson1453 a new look on life would be hiding an underlying problem if I continued in my job full-time. Luckily I can afford to work much less than full-time, so it becomes irrelevant. However, flippantly telling people just about managing that they need to get a new job, or perspective, is deeply unhelpful and ignorant.
The brickies don’t want to automate. It’s the companies who do for profit. No robot can work without servicing. If humans want to protect their worth... don’t service the robot
@@ricos1497 defo in the wrong job. U get one life, and need to enjoy every moment. Follow your passion. When you enjoy what you do, customers buy from you 👍
The industry is going to be looking more and more into, 'de-skilling', house building and construction out of necessity more than anything else. If they cant find people to do these jobs, then they'll try using machines. (there'll always be plenty of work for tradesmen/women maintaining, renovating and extending the country's existing housing stock). Thanks for the video guys.
sometimes its not a matter of finding people its a matter of paying people enough to want to enter the industry. if its considered a shitty job but has a great paycheck at the end of the day people will do it. as far as robots go i feel like it will be a bit like milling machines and 3d printers, they have come along way in a few years due to higher and higher demand for them.
@@timabel280 there were automatic lathes before cnc, and semi automated production machines in 1850, all in factories, when we've done any automation with house building it's been done in the factory. Look at all the money musk is throwing at self driving cars that still crash, robots can't handle the big wide world and will need AI to design something that can and then we won't need houses because we'll all be plugged into the matrix powering them.
"Oy luv moy brick!" Fr. Jack Hackett
I think that's a very smart question you asked there Roger, about if brick is the material of the future. You should have a look at what they're starting to do with 3D printing concrete structures. Pretty amazing stuff.
I love the new concrete entrance to my house with the brick inlay pattern :-)
Would be a very good idea to do an episode like this for every trade. Like each week a different series. Depending on what trade the audience demands.
They'll be bricking it at the thought of a robot takeover...frankly, I'm mortarfied at the prospect of robots cementing their course to domination 😉👍 Sorry, Roger... I'll leave now without a fuss👍 Love these discussion pieces. Thank you.
Bricklaying will always exist. What about renovations, and building extensions?
I’m not a bricklayer, but my dad was, and I know there’s so much more to a bricklayer than laying one brick on top of the other.....so no, robots may learn the basics, but a true brickie has many a trick up his sleeve...... I love to watch a wall be built, one brick at a time......so yes, long live the brick, well it’s lasted this long with no real problem. All the best guys, totally love your channel, been hooked since I found it a few weeks ago. xXx
Robots can build spaceships, electric cars, computer processor's. But you think it will never be capable of building a brick wall lol.
I watched a video recently we’re concrete house was built by a robot that had a nozzle and squirted in lines, it built a house in 24 hours. It only used 2 men, very impressive
Interesting points. The mold idea sounds right to me. (PS I love laying bricks).
I wish the planners would allow for more none brick dwellings. I love some of the new renderings and clearing materials.
There will always be many ways of building an enclosure to live in,
many materials used to build that enclosure and many different designs people will come up with,
at the end of the day it’s fantastic that we are all different and we all think out side of the box and thats what makes the world go around, in time some techniques and materials will fail but if we don’t experiment and move forward we are all stuck in the past
Don’t know about concrete moulds but I have watched quite a few videos on YT recently showing giant 3D concrete printers where they literally print the whole house. Amazing! The shape of the structures are sometimes only possible by this method. Maybe that’s the future of quick built housing? You should check it out. 👍🏻
I've seen brick panels brought to site pre made and just fixed to the out side as decorative panels
I'm a fan of the European large terracotta block system especially if its preinstalled. Edit meant to say pre insulated
I have to to totally agree with you. About 10 years ago I worked on a job where we build a few house's out of these and it was the quickest and easiest job ever. I can't believe they haven't been adopted over here in this time.
Set up for robots especially on multi angled and faced buildings will be to labour intensive. Long straight walls perhaps but more ground work would be required for stability and smoothness of operation.
It's a good talking point Roger at some stage in the future all the plastic wastage has got to be involved in the construction of buildings at some stage in the future as opposed to bricks perhaps????
Good points Rodger! I dont think robots will take over anytime soon..only because on sites it just isn't convenient..the ground isn't level or ideal for them for example. You are kinda right in saying bricks are a thing of the past..maybe not for the next 10 years, but the game is changing really quick and demand for bricks is rocketing and the supply cant keep up..maybe that will be a huge factor in changing what we build with in the future 🧱👍
It's certainly going to need innovative solutions. Pre fab homes aren't quite there yet but if they get the design right maybe more people will opt for those.
Raise the line Roger!
I'm not in a trade but was always interested in construction engineering. I think cheap and quick techniques will replace bricklaying.
Roger, can I ask what happens to the timber frame house after, let's say, 40 years? New homes are guaranteed for anything between 10-40 years and developers are very quiet about lifespan of such construction. Hardwood based houses can last a few hundred years but what about modern softwood?
Back in the sixties it was assumed that by now all houses would be built by section in factories and transported to the site to be assembled like lego
Back in the sixties they told us that we would all be working 2 days a week and be as rich as Arabs from our North Sea Oil. Predictions of the future are rarely accurate.
Don't worry! STAKKER got the first and most important comment in again.
The future has arrived.
But, can a bricklaying robot handle 8 pints down the pub after a doing half an extension?
Will a bricklaying robot be able to support England in the quarter finals? Bricklayers are the backbone of England football support.
I think the future in small regular homes is 3d printed with time set mortar,
Taller structures I think will forever be steel structure clad with something hopefully not flammable
Construction and bricklaying will become automated as have many repetitive tasks already. . The lessons of automation is that any repetitive tasks can be done faster and with greater accuracy by software and associated machinery than any human can match in the timescales needed.
I think the Roman thin bricks layer is to prevent earthquakes from knocking the building down. The thin bricks act as a shock absorber.
No they just could not fire a thicker brick, the kilns were wood fired.
3d printing i can see being used in the future as you don't need as many skilled people and companies will use it.
On the money, great insight.
Not a fan of bricks, too hard to get good brickies in Oz.
May well be used on brand new industrial square boxes where it’s very easy to set up / programme. Stick it on a domestic extension where stuff ain’t square, parallel or out of gauge and the traditional trowel will always win. Me thinks. I can’t see it impacting my twilight years. 🧱🧱😂
Thats my thoughts im 42 so ive probably got just over 20 years left on the trowel im thinking not in my life time will they take over
When the labor market is at it’s all time low it doesn’t matter how fast/well the very few people who actually want to work and do a good job can lay bricks…cause you can’t find enough motivated people to do the tough work or the easy jobs either but definitely easier getting someone to run the machine instead of run a trowel
They’ve tried concrete walled buildings before Roger, nothing but trouble, a few properties around by me were built this way, luckily not mine, I can’t remember the brand style, but anyway, it’s difficult to get a mortgage on them as they are prone to concrete cracking where the rebar is, and damp, a lot of people then clad the walls externally.
3D printed buildings is a likely future
I was about to say that , it's looking to go that way
Agreed. Brickwork will become niche and only available to the wealthy for their mansions.
Like, a layered concrete extrusion kinda thing? You'd need some way of adding rebar as you went. Interesting thought experiment. Could concrete be formulated to have enough viscosity to hold its shape?
@@twocents1319 it's already being tested. Even without an exterior form, a building can be printed or to give it it's correct term, additive manufacturing. Unsure on the exact composition of the printing medium but I guess maybe some sort of fibre reinforced concrete to enhance strength in lieu or rebar.
A mate of mine was on a site where they agreed to let Hilti showcase their new robotic drilling machine.
It didn't go well.
'A poor life this if, full of care
We have no time to stand and stare'.
Bricks represent skill, thought, craftsmanship and timeless beauty. Speed is not the answer to happiness and joy.
I’m not a builder, and I’ve attempted a little bricklaying when needed around the garden; but there are so many quicker -but maybe no more cost effective- ways of building a habitable shell to choose from now that I believe in the demise of such a bulky medium……a small industry has risen just to crush demolish-rubble to use it as infill!
Preformed panels, deck sections and pre-placed services in those sections are becoming the norm.
As a Bricklayer i can say Robots certainly won't take over when it comes to laying bricks!! The reasons being is the feel and finesse and skill needed to make fine adjustments can only be done by a human not all bricks are the same size so need my skill and feel as a bricklayer to nip a perp up or open out slightly to lay a fraction above a line if the brick is big for gauge so the bottom arris lines in etc i can build every kind of arch , bullseye windows , herringbone, corbelling , soldiers , brick on edge , dog tooth the list goes on and on there is no robot can do that and for them reasons alone there will always be demand for the bricklayer.....like you say unless brick as a material gets fazed out altogether or we just build modular building with perfectly uniformed bricks and they perfect the robots so they don't have to be constantly fed or monitored by humans i think its safe to say no robot is coming to take my job or certainly not in my life time anyway.
Complacency.
Something like an inflatable mold. Great idea and would like to see it.
Too bad there aren't lockable, interlocking blocks.
I reckon it'd be easier to make moulds on the ground, self-levelling. Pre-designed walls with doors and window openings, held together with concrete columns on the corners.
Actually there is, Dragon Den had a pair of inventors that had created one, and pitched it for emergencies for shelter
I think probably it'll go to 3D printing especially in developing countries, they can already print really cool looking little houses.
1:26, as a former banksman this filled me with horror.
Yes you wouldn't fancy standing under that one.
As a bricklayer, most of the bricklaying in the video filled me with horror!!!
I'm a bricklayer in Lincolnshire UK I'm 16 years old but I do the same work as the other bricklayers I work with regardless of the task. I do not believe that bricklaying robots are the future. Robots can run in to straight lines sure but arguabley so can anyone with limited knowledge and training however robots cannot put on the artistic finishes that a tradesman can which the public seem to fall in love with like the offset brick design around the top of a house or the cut gable end builds or the built in patterns that are common in towns and cities. Can employers really afford to pay the enormous cost for a robot as well as foot the bill for tradesman to come in and finish the job. Also look at how many other workers are required to feed the robot and set everything up I've seen the video scoops and I still see workers with trowels in thier hands ready to put on brick halves and do the pointing. In my opinion Roger, a bricklaying robot can only be justified if it can do everything a qualified tradesman can do
I reckon that British brickies could not hold a candle to the Mexican brickies building their catalan vaults.
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The future is factory made modular housing which is available now and picking up interest all the time, although even with a choice of factory made housing, timber frame and traditional many people still opt for traditional so I think the trade is safe for a good while yet, even if the new build sector is replaced by modular housing there will still be a big demand for domestic and restoration trades
The Americans had (and assume still do) modular houses since the tail end of the 19th century. Just open a catalogue and pick one. Its an interesting way to do things and certainly saves an all the architectural costs when its premade
@@VeyronBD well we have a big factory in Yorkshire amongst many in the country, once made 3 houses can be assembled every 2 days,
I’ve got accepted onto my local college to do nvq lvl 1 in bricklaying part time.
Im having second thoughts about it now. Maybe it’s better to stick to being a warehouse operative (which is my current job)
I wouldn't worry about robots doing bricklaying. I think it won't happen in your lifetime.
Can’t see any robot in a footing with a 600mm trench building a 300 mm wall
Well said 👏
That sounds like an argument from personal incredulity. Just becasue "you can't see it" does not mean that it cannot or will not happen. I imagine there was a time when automotive workers "could not see" a machine building a car.
@@corydorastube what I have been doing for a living for almost 37 years will never involve a robot, they would never be capable of moving around in two feet of thick mud, excavators can’t do it! As for robots building cars in a spotless clean environment running on a perfectly level concrete floor- I think they are more suited to this than what I do, it would be far too expensive
@@petesy03 Complacency.
@@corydorastube Reality
I believe that factory made wall panels will be the future of house building. The external face can have any kind of decorative finish.
Artificial Brick, Stone, or Timber. The internal face could be some kind of thermal insulated wall board. Transport these units to the site. Bolt them together like some giant Meccano set.
You could have a house up in a day.
From what i’ve seen lately in the US is the 3D printing of whole homes and now neighborhoods, that seems to be more of a job threat to brick layers in about 10 years or so. I’m only guessing here and of course just my opinion.
That is BS because the structural component of a house is extremely cheap. It costs in the low thousands of dollars to frame a house. It makes more sense to automate the architects and interior designers and deal with the mountain of paperwork which represents a much larger fraction of the total price.
@@colonynaut1627 go look at a new estate, then go to the next town and look at a new estate, repeat in your area...
The architect time might be a ten times more expensive, (say paid £200 per hour, rather than £15 per hour) but they already digitized the drafting with CAD, already already robotized the structural engineering with finite element analysis, and then they took the work of that architect and used it to build ten thousand houses...
On a per house basis (to guys like Wimpey or Barrat, the architects are incredibly cheap.)
@Applehash you just get another 3D printer to print the 3D printer in situ.
Wonder how much these cost ,and how much is the upkeep .The price of this will probably keep a skilled person in a job for a long time
I guess there’s a chance, or 3D printing. But having stuff like that on a site could be a nightmare. Surely more likely to move away from bricks with prefab panels built off site in factories/warehouses etc… better for energy efficient housing etc.
Prefab has been promised - in the sense of total house fabrication in factories - since the literal days of the Mayflower when it took prefabs over to yonder. There exist not obvious reasons why it never takes over completely.
@@colonynaut1627 I think it's hard to shift an industry where we have the workforce to build homes with bricks, customers want them as mentioned in the video, etc. And there's a chicken/egg situation with costs given the more they're used/the larger the prefab panel industry gets the cheaper they'll be through economies of scale etc... but we need to get there first (like how the Government wants us all to have heat pumps but they're fairly expensive currently... they'll come down in price is there's mass adoption/a far larger heat pump industry, but that hasn't happened yet).
@@nopaynenoparty I understand there are scaling advantages later but actually I'm not sure it's the correct path - I mean architecturally and for design. Nobody wants homogeneous prefabs - the estates are monotonic enough as it is.
I have seen whole panels of brick look materials hoisted up and secured to an inner frame and huge elevations done in next to no time over a day. Brickies will always have work but it will be more specialised, is my guess.
It wont take over from brickies working on extentions etc but on estates i think they'll be used.
I believe the use of bricks in new build housing is rapidly approaching due to the embodied carbon content. Regulations are only going to get stricter which is going to push builders to use more offsite construction methods.
I think 3D printing houses will be a big thing within 10 to 15 years. There are endless possibilities. However, I think we’ll always need the tradesmen, plumbers, electricians, etc.
There’s a time and place for these Robots, but you will need so much space and land to set one up! I can’t see it happening much.
not a chance, would a robot use a 2 board scaffold as space is tight?
I drive past one of those million pound German sectional houses occasionally. It looked lovely when it was finished 6 or 7 years ago. Now it wouldn’t look out of place on jaywick seafront. I’ll stick with brickwork.
What about 3D printing techniques?
It is probable that houses will come prefab, not like the crude asbestos and steel post war housing but super efficient and stylish units that are flexible enough that many different house styles can be achieved through mixing and rearranging modules, we could call them ‘bricks’ for purely nostalgic reasons. Lol
Trust me ,the worlds tea producers will ensure this never happens. ☕️😷🍩
Comment of the video. Subtle Bill. Keep your perps plumb.
Robots LOVE tea
@@stevehayward2533 Rust coloured with loads of sugar.
@@TheLemonadedrinker AKA builders tea
Doesn't matter if the machines take twice as long or even if their work is not quite as good: if they can do a good-enough job for half the price, then robots are gonna win.
Well I know my toaster could lay bricks better than most bricklayers on my site.
3D printed houses are the future!!
I think is a far more likely approach to automation.
All I have to say is... You will need to build a lot of houses before a $7m robot becomes cheaper than a man that can lay 3 times faster. I also don't see bricks going away anytime soon in the UK. Countries build with the resources available. The US has a lot of land for growing trees so wood houses makes sense. So much land in fact that they are still cutting down old trees in a lot of cases rather than sustainably growing trees for harvest like in the UK. In the UK we have a lot of clay and not so much available forestry land so bricks make more sense.
Plus bricks have a much lower maintenance cost than wood siding which needs regular maintenance compared to bricks which need repointing every 20 years or so and the occasional frost damaged brick being replaced. You have 500+ year old masonry houses in the UK all over the place while 300 year old wood buildings in the US do still exist but most of them don't have the original cladding.
to answer your initial question, no, but robots will take over more and more roles. I think the running out of natural materials will come first or at least will be economically too expensive to extract. I am surprised there is any sand left for one thing.
I suspect some sort of 3d agrigate printing of buildings will become a faster and more efficient form of house building.
And as for traditional buildings, in Britain we don't have the space.
3d printed High rise is the future of home development.
Using mycelium foam insulation cladding.
Can all be done with electric powered crane's and a small workforce of internal specialists and finisher's.
Being a shuttering joiner (formworker) bricks are just silly to me, I build with concrete!
I reckon automated bricklaying robots will improve because developers look to drive costs lower. Brickwork that's uniform is ideal-same motion repeated is easier to improve with tech. Perhaps they'll be content with that but human progress generally pushes for more.
I suspect that the 3D concrete printer is more likely the next evolution of robotic home building.
3D HEMPCRETE is the future.
Those blow up house exist already Rodger 👍
I would like to see one.
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I think the lego system should be brought to building sites using a lightweight but strong and long lasting material without mortar, problem is with all these new processes they price themselves out of the market, my guess is the inventors are greedy and want to be over night millionaires rather than do it gradually and be successful. Thus I'm afraid bricks have some time in the future to go yet in my opinion.
3D Printed houses exist. I would love to hear what Roger thinks about those.
I’m Fairly sure that in the 70’s I saw wooden moulds where sides of houses were made by pouring concrete into the mould . Yeah there was a brick facade over the concrete structure as well later on but the houses were made from wooden moulds initially ….. these were Manchester council houses ….. they’re still there today 50 years later. Houses of the future will be pre fabricated in factories by robots
Listen Chuck, 50 years ago John Laing Construction R&D department invented a robot block laying system. It was deployed on a few housing devs and cost far too much to maintain. I think Elstree Plant Hire (EPL John Laing’s plant hire company) hired the system to others. It never caught on…
50 years ago you couldn't get access to the entire knowledge of the world in the palm of your hand, yet here we are with smartphones. Every single job can be automated it's just dependent on it being cost effective. Maintenance brickies will be safe, but big structures or estates could see robots taking over.
Fifty years ago. LOL Wake up Rip Van Winkle, things have moved on a bit since the 1970s. Complaceny.
@@corydorastube if computers were designed by construction industry “clever bastards”, what clock speed would they have today, eh?
Answer: same as they had in nineteen hundred and frozen to death.
The UK construction industry stagnated many, many decades ago. Wimpey (no fines concrete) and JLC (robot block laying) tried to innovate, albeit unsuccessfully. We will be using the same old scaffolding systems, bricks, internal partitioning, etc, etc, for many decades to come I fear.
I'd like to see robots go beyond bricks and lay down large blocks. Imagine a home that looks like a fortress and solid enough to last 1000 years.
I already know a couple of robots on site.
What are their names?
Iv seen thin joint used by companies don't think it saved time really cause it all comes with its own problems. Stick to what we know and trust! I really don't want to retrain at 41! Save the bricklayers
Don't worry Harry, they have been talking about this for nearly sixty years and they still can't build a corner.
Can you imagine the complexity of programming a machine to open up or tighten the perps let alone talking about gauge.
Prefab seems more likely. Easier QA, cheaper and faster
What these robots going to do when it comes up against an uneven footing ?
They won’t site will prepare the ground better, if it makes economic sense.
I doubt site based robots will be the primary method mainly because with increasing population and to better use technology for transport we will need to completely alter the way we think of traditional home. 3D printing , off site modular home will be key, this will help support the build of more communal and connected approach to homes.
To me the way we are still building housing estate type building in the UK is crazy and not future planning.
The future is wood engineered products for residential. They sequester carbon, are light enough to be panelized for off site construction to get weather building enclosure in a few days. Beyond a brick veneer system, a brick wall might act as a double wall for >150mm of insulation (R60 walls are appearing in cold climates). Institutional buildings that need to stand for hundreds of years should be a "perfect wall": brick, ventilation gap, insulation, airtight wrb/vapour control, followed by block work, service cavity and paperless sheet rock, because of the fire and flood resistance it offers. Brickies aren't going anywhere as long as they can crush wages. Higher wages, more sense a robot makes.
I personally think it'll be a timber framed pre bricked walls just dropped in all finished I've seen the high rise version but not on the timber house scale 🔨
Would we not run out of trees?America and Canada build timber framed houses and Scandinavians also Europe are also building timber framed buildings ready to assemble,we could go on all day, what will be will be 🤔
@@anthonyworthington6495 we use trees that are felled after 5 year's and the companies that fell the trees also replant as they go but we rap them in a leaf of brick not like in the states where there clad which is use of more timber maybe the way we do it here is more timber efficient
@@tomsmith9048 👍
@@anthonyworthington6495 👍
First bricklaying robot back in 1967 the motor mason I think it was called made to speed up bricklaying . That didn’t seem to effect the need for bricklayers, the more automated ones of today might just have an effect in another 54 years
More complacency.
I was almost waiting for a story like this, I do wonder how they'd get a machine into some of the tight spaces needed. Most physical things get replaced by something that is cheaper or quicker, but when you think about the prep time getting a robot to site, then configuring it and having 'new skill' people moving it around, surely someone is going to figure out that it's a bit pointless? Head to head I reckon a brickie will win, and I'm not a full time one. May be though, as space on-site gets tighter as housing densities increase due to demand, there might be even less chance for these robots to get in, physically! If this does take off, I can only guess that it's only because certain people have invested an enormous amount of money in it, and they sure want to get it back and will do anything to make it happen. That's a cynics view!
As for the bricks future, it's as much a government thing (Local Authority and planning phase) as well as the house buying publics decision. People will never want the building they have, the way it was bought, they want to change it and a block built property is way easier to change. Compare it to SIPs for example, and I reckon a Structural Engineer will be the only clear winner.
Great topic though Roger, keep up the good work 👍
There's a time coming pretty soon when robots 🤖 will be knocking down the walls 😒
August 29th 1997, skynet will become self aware.
@@ricos1497 🤖😭
Prefab concrete, done offsite and shipped.
Im no expert but I swear people are ignoring the value of the thermal mass that bricks have…..if we all start living in foam houses we are going to need some good hvac systems
They are 3D printing houses with concrete here in the US now. Concrete is not a "green" building material so who knows the future of bricks or concrete? It guess it's always a balancing act of cost and durability.
Yes soon we won’t have a lot of the jobs we have today. Lawyer taxi chef retail customer service bricklaying car wash etc