Business Development Opportunities for Robotics in Dutch Construction Industry

Abstract

This paper describes a research project of the Dutch foundation for building research, aimed at identifying and describing the key technologies for robotics and automated production systems in the building & construction industry. The project focusses on the dutch building & construction industry (housing & utility buildings excluding civil engineering constructions). The main goals of the project are to:• Describe the available technologies, relevant for automated production systems, currently reffered to as:• Construction robots and/or computercontrolled machines • Automated buildingfactories • Computer aided manufacturing • Identify the opportunity area's for succesfull implementation of automated production systems • Describe the consequences of applying automated production systems for the organization of small and medium sized enterprises (SME's) • Develop a detailed plan for knowledge transfer.