Productivity in the $10tn global construction industry is not improving because of understaffing and a lack of digitisation, according to a McKinsey report from earlier this year. However, productivity could be improved by the adoption of robots for construction and prefabrication work and drones for site inspection duties. For example, California-based Construction Robotics has invented a bricklaying robot, the SAM100, which is already in use on site. It can lay 2,000 bricks a day compared with the 400 a day a worker can typically manage.
Productivity in the $10tn global construction industry is not improving because of understaffing and a lack of digitisation, according to a McKinsey report from earlier this year. However, productivity could be improved by the adoption of robots for construction and prefabrication work and drones for site inspection duties. For example, New York-based Construction Robotics has invented a bricklaying robot, the SAM100, which is already in use on site. It can lay 2,000 bricks a day compared with the 400 a day a worker can typically manage.