The original series or the reboot? (both were excellent)Perhaps AI will solve all the world's problems . . but I can't escape looking at AI & robotics through my Battlestar Galactica lens.
Wrong thinking I'm afraid. With new house design and off-site construction methods, the need for plasterers, brick and block layers, on-site carpenters, etc will be eliminated, just as lamp-lighters and night-spoil collectors no longer exist as jobs.The cost of replacing a plasterer with a plastering robot, (aside from the fact it would save a fortune in cups of tea), is currently likely to be very prohibitive.
Off site construction was there before, they were called Ro Fab houses back in the 70s. Dreadful builds.Wrong thinking I'm afraid. With new house design and off-site construction methods, the need for plasterers, brick and block layers, on-site carpenters, etc will be eliminated, just as lamp-lighters and night-spoil collectors no longer exist as jobs.
Look at the staffing involved in operations like Huff House, most of the timber manipulation is fully automated. They manufacture and install around 200 houses a year with a total staff of just over 400. So some people who would have become block layers may now become less skilled installers and some of those carpenters will become less skilled factory operators, the majority will need to find other sources of employment.Agree with block layers but what you will see is a change in skills, blocklayers will become "assembly men" at the relevant site. Carpenters will move to working in the pre-fab factories etc.
Yes, cars were much worse in the 70's, as were planes and shoes and batteries and washing machines and robots and computers and windmills and just about every other manufactured good.Off site construction was there before, they were called Ro Fab houses back in the 70s. Dreadful builds.
I disagree. The Irish construction industry hasn't kept up, if anything it is going from bad to worse quality-wise and in every other respect (refer to posts in the main fora in AAM for horror stories from Irish new-build buyers). New children's hospital anyone?Technology and material science has moved on. The construction sector hasn't kept up.
Going off track but that hannah fry programme is always interestingI disagree. The Irish construction industry hasn't kept up, if anything it is going from bad to worse quality-wise and in every other respect (refer to posts in the main fora in AAM for horror stories from Irish new-build buyers). New children's hospital anyone?
Organisations like Huf Haus have been advancing the state-of-the-art consistently for the last 100+ years. Their first self-learning house, designed and built in cooperation with IBM, was opened in 2018, integrating software engineering into construction and everyday living.
BTW without early versions of AI, safe, self-managed, complex elevator systems in high-rise buildings would not have been possible in the middle of the 20th century. It was then viewed as an enabling technology, making the impossible possible. See Hannah Fry https://www.sky.com/watch/title/ser...ac51-c5b4f7accdc6/episodes/season-2/episode-6. Brilliant series BTW.
Are you suggesting that the cost overruns there are down to poor quality workmanship or outdated construction practices?New children's hospital anyone?
Except that's not possible as neither tool creates content without direction and user input.head of its airing, Virgin Media Ireland explained that the special episode was "shaped entirely by input from ChatGPT and Google Bard"
Yes, cost and delivery date overruns are evidence of poor workmanship by the designers, planners, controllers, "managers", and no doubt others. There were also doubts and a lack of clarity about what was integral to the project and not. Five or six operating theatres, the construction, fit out and kitting of same were not included in the original plans if I remember correctly. A shambolic approach from day one.Are you suggesting that the cost overruns there are down to poor quality workmanship or outdated construction practices?
Yes, others, so let's not conflate thees issues with construction practices and poor procurement. You don't blame a builder when the client keeps changing their mind on the fundamentals of a house they're building. Most of the decision makers do not work in the construction sector.Yes, cost and delivery date overruns are evidence of poor workmanship by the designers, planners, controllers, "managers", and no doubt others.
Integral to construction and construction practices IMO as is procurement of skills, labour, machinery, and materials.Yes, cost and delivery date overruns are evidence of poor workmanship by the designers, planners, controllers, "managers", and no doubt others.
No, thankfully no one in the HSE is dictating construction practices, it's a big enough mess without that! No serious construction contractor would take on a project where a novice client insisted on such control.Integral to construction and construction practices IMO as is procurement of skills, labour, machinery, and materials.
Yep, if you don't know what you're doing, pay one of the big consultancies to come in and do it for you. Then, before things go pear shaped get your self a nice promotion based on the amazing job you're doing according to measures you've defined.They pay a fortune for 3rd party management consultants and then brainlessly follow their recommendations without having the skills, ability, knowledge, freedom or courage to challenge those recommendations.
And conversely, if the project goes horribly wrong, you can shrug your shoulders and say you took your direction from the experts!Yep, if you don't know what you're doing, pay one of the big consultancies to come in and do it for you. Then, before things go pear shaped get your self a nice promotion based on the amazing job you're doing according to measures you've defined.
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