The seismic conditions in particular are very important, as they have a major impact on the design of the safety systems and therefore increase the complexity of the design.
Nor do we think that the future of robotics in construction is in building robots to do jobs that we, or they, shouldn’t be doing in the first place.Technology is not fairy dust that you sprinkle onto a problem to sort it out.
You need to assess the entire process and engage actively with technology to see where – or whether – it will add value.You also have to be open to the very real possibility that its use may fundamentally alter that process for the better.As an industry, we have to get better at creating and sharing data, information and learning.At the moment, we just don’t do that well enough.
We have the computing and processing infrastructure to do amazing things with data in the built environment sector, but we have to create it, share it – and use it.. We’re big believers in open source.We use open source tools and technology in our work and we have built and shared some of our design automation work in the same way, so that other architects and designers can explore, understand, benefit – and hopefully build on – the work that we do.. Whilst technology can bring huge benefits to the construction industry, we also have to be aware of ethical questions around how data is collected and used.
We all know that when some of the big tech companies created big data and laid the foundations for many technical advances, they gathered that data in some questionable ways.
We now hear people talking about putting tracking devices onto construction workers to record and measure their movements to increase efficiency, or to assess their wellbeing for health and safety purposes – but might these devices also be used to assess work rates and monitor time spent taking a toilet break?.Lincoln suggests that the move towards alternative cooling methods - like liquid cooling - must balance innovation with the reliability needed to maintain near-perfect uptime.
Robust testing and early collaboration with manufacturers and utility providers are key to ensuring new solutions are both effective and safe..Sustainable Power: Turning a liability into an opportunity.
As data centres draw ever larger amounts of power, sustainability becomes central.Lincoln describes Edged’s parent organisation, Endeavour, as taking a holistic view of energy usage and carbon reduction.