- Companies will work together to build Construchor, a groundbreaking research facility in Belgium.
- Project Bridges Academia and Industry to promote sustainable life.
- ABB robots and software are key components of the AUAR microfactor and show sustainable and affordable housing buildings.
Constructhor, a groundbreaking research institution
AUAR company AUAR ABB Robotics and Construction Technology work together to create Construchor, a groundbreaking research facility 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, which is responsible for 40% of global CO2 emissions, is working to build up more environmentally friendly and sustainable ways and at the same time overcome the skills and increase 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.
Continuous cooperation
Together, AUAR and ABB Robotics have worked on automating building processes with mobile microfractories for robots that build out cost -effective and high -quality wooden frame panels for walls, floors and roofs. The AUAR automated construction system uses the most modern robotics from ABB to carry out tasks such as modular assembly that contribute to optimizing 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.
You can find more information at: GO.abb/robotics-Construction.