‘One informs the other,’ says Trotman.
The requirement of specialist robotic programming skills.Technical and financial risks that limit the possible uses of robotic arm technology.
To address these issues and to connect robotic technology to Bryden Wood’s ‘Platform Approach’ to Design for Manufacture and Assembly (P-DfMA), our Creative Technologies team has developed F.R.A.C.– a Framework for Robotics and Automated Construction.. F.R.A.C.provides an open, extensible and collaborative platform that enables all designers – not only specialists – to engage with robotic technologies and to embed digital manufacture workflows into their everyday design activities.. F.R.A.C.
is an easy to use digital workflow that connects industry standard design software to robotic technology tools, using custom apps to provide:.XR environments for design and process interaction.
A library of manufacturing blocks as defined elements of process (which we call CHIPs).
Real time data exchange between simulated systems across multiple devices.Decisions made during early design stages should prioritise embodied carbon alongside design, function, and aesthetics..
The brainstorming sessions on how to move from the BaU scheme to a platform-led scheme (back in 2019) included embodied carbon as one of the technical indicators, giving as much weight to carbon as other metrics such as productivity, safety, and cost..The data collected on this project is valuable, not because it shows how well the buildings perform against benchmarks, but because the data can influence future projects right now.
If every project was able to reduce embodied carbon by nearly 40% it would revolutionise the industry..The Forge stands as a beacon of what is possible when we rethink design and construction.