- Companies will work together to build Construchor, a groundbreaking research facility in Belgium
- Project Bridges Academia and Industry to advance sustainable life
- ABB robots and software are key components of the AUAR microfactor and demonstrate sustainable and affordable housing buildings
AUAR company AUAR ABB Robotics and Construction Technology work together to create “constructthor”, a groundbreaking research institution in Belgium, to create the future of sustainable construction. The project will use AUARS micro-fraction technology and put together using an automated construction process of ABB robots. After completion, the state-of-the-art facility will serve as a living laboratory for researching energy-neutral infrastructure and climate-off building materials.
“The global construction industry, responsible for 40% of the global Co.2 Emissions are working on building more environmentally friendly and sustainable types and at the same time overcoming the skills and increasing productivity, ”said Craig McDonnell, Managing Director Business Line Industries at ABB Robotics. “In order to support this transition, robot automation can play an important role by reducing the waste and the environmental and staff problems with which construction companies are confronted with today.”
The constructthor project will create a climate-rear, large-scale test infrastructure in the Openenthor Labor in the Openenthor Living Lab in Thor Park, Genk, Belgium. This education initiative combines various research boundaries from Belgium -renowned partners of KU Leuven University and industry to develop strategies and solutions for the further development of a climatic construction industry.
“We are incredibly proud and honored that our technology is used to set up this pioneering facility. This is proof of AUAR and ABBS joint commitment to innovation and sustainable building practices,” said Mollie Claypool, co -founder and CEO of AUAR. “Our automated modular design microfactories provide the challenges in the industry directly at the costs, timing and the CO2 footprint of construction building and this project will prove that our innovative construction concept in the development of future sustainable companies will be an essential part.”
“Cooperation between AUAR and ABB Robotics presents an exciting vision for the future of building and building. With the constructor project, we expanded this vision by experimenting with reused wood for modular walls. This approach not only integrates robotics and modular design, but also emphasizes circularity, “said Tim Verhetsel, constructor project coordinator at KU Leuven.
Together, AUAR and ABB robotics worked on automating building processes with mobile microfractories for robots
S. The AUAR automated construction system uses the most modern robotics of ABB to carry out tasks such as modular assembly that help optimize the design process. These advanced robots, which are equipped with visual and AI skills, increase the speed, flexibility and consistency, so that panels and apartment structures can be quickly produced. For example, a robot microfactor can produce the core and shell of a single house in less than 12 hours, which can then be put together quickly on site.
AUAR and ABB have developed an innovative approach to using robots in a global network of local microfactories, so that the apartment near its final locations can be produced with a minimal building on site. Auar demonstrates the potential of this method and has already launched microfractories in Great Britain, Belgium and the United States, including two in the middle west. Next year you will plan to expand this network to a total of 10 microfractories and add seven partners in Europe and North America.
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Automated architecture (Auar) builds an automated construction platform for sustainable apartments. Auar is the only construction company that has scaled both the technology and the business model. The entire design chain – householders, developers and manufacturers – rely on our platform from design to production. We have developed a product suite of robot microfractories and AUAR master builder, software for design-to-production, that increases opportunities, efficiency, predictability and monitoring and at the same time significantly reduces the financial risk and environmental costs. This approach enables our customers to deliver the demand for housing that have currently exceeded the marketing capacity of the market. Our customers access our platform via our “No Capex” hardware-as-a-a-service/design-a-a-service business model. By 2030, Auar will grow on sales of over 1 billion GBP, with over 100,000 carbon-negative houses being produced by our customers in more than 10 geographies. Find out more: website | LinkedIn