The Chair of Individualized Production has been nominated for the BAUMA Innovation Award with the ROBETON project. The goal of the ROBETON research project is to deconstruct concrete walls in a minimally invasive way to prepare them for reuse for circulareconomy in construction. A research team at the Chair of Individualized Construction Production is working with an international industry consortium and students from the Construction & Robotics master’s program to cut individual components out of buildings being demolished so that they can later be reused in construction and circular economy. Currently, there are neither fully nor partially automated solutions on the market. This gap is now to be closed. The ROBETON research project is funded by the Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development (BBSR) on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Housing, Urban Development (BMWSB) with funds from the Zukunft Bau research grant.
Furthermore, the project is supported by the project partners Hilti and Brokk as well as the associated project partners PORR; EIFFAGE, LEONHARD WEISS, HKS Drehantriebe, Kerschgens and the IMF Group.
The IP research team consists of Prof. Sigrid Brell-Cokcan, Christoph Heuer, Joo Lee and Victoria Jung.
During a two-week cooperation, the Chair of Individualized Production and Robots in Architecture Research UG together with our cooperation partner Lamparter tested the use of the flexible mobile robot platforms and enhanced it especially for steel construction. During the twelfth IoC project meeting, this cooperation was presented to the IoC consortium. The steel fabrication demonstrator is based on a flexible plant concept with a mobile interactive robot. The robot assists with assembly, for example by transporting and precisely positioning components. The welder then only has to set the weld seam. Compared with conventional systems, the concept is characterized by the fact that it enables human-machine collaboration and requires no further safety precautions. The welder can thus intervene directly in the robot’s process and adapt it individually. Among other things, this facilitates the otherwise time-consuming scribing and transport of components and reduces workforce.
This research and development project is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) within the “Innovations for Tomorrow’s Productions, Services, and Work” Program and implemented by the Project Management Agency Karlsruhe (PTKA). The author is responsible for the content of this publication. Further details under: internet-of-construcion.com
Within the “Pilot project for a research and training center for construction processes and construction machinery (im Rheinischen Revier)”, researchers of the chair of Individualized Production in Architecture offered a workshop on the automization and digitization for construction sites. Students from the training center Kerpen of the Bauindustrie NRW were given insights on current research topics regarding digital environment detection and possible applications therefore related to construction. In the following, the students’ feedback on these topics from the background of professional training has been discussed and recorded in an evaluation, which focused on the application of new technologies.
We are happy to announce the final presentation of our third batch of students of the international Master of Construction & Robotics (CR). Once again, we invite a top-class industry jury to represent the board members of the CR programme and our premium partners of the Center Construction Robotics, to help guide the concepts and the developments on the reference construction site on the RWTH Aachen Campus West.
Students of the Master’s program Construction & Robotics as well as employees of the Chair for Individualized Production of RWTH Aachen University (under the direction of Prof. Dr.-techn. Sigrid Brell-Cokcan) visited PORR’s largest construction project to date, FAIR (i.e. the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research), in Darmstadt.
A particle accelerator with a 1.1 km long accelerator tunnel and buildings above is being built on a 20 ha site. PORR is responsible for the shell construction of the northern section of the facility. After an introduction to the construction project for heavy ion research by the head of technical office Thomas Beckmann and Saleem Javed, the students were guided through the construction site.
The dimensions of the overall project become apparent, for example, by the 6-meter-thick, massive reinforced concrete structures and 25 km of cable pipes, and present a challenge for construction site logistics.
Special thanks for making the site visit possible to the innovation team of PORR AG, Karina Schiefer, Lina Wallmann and Estefania Betancourt. Also, a big thanks for guiding the construction site tour to PORR GmbH&Co KGaA, Thomas Beckmann, Karim El-Joudi, Saleem Javed, Berge Kuhn and the whole project team. We wish them great success for the further execution.
We are very grateful to our Premium Member PORR AG for inviting the Master Construction&Robotics students to the impressive construction site of FAIR Darmstadt. Learning from experts in the construction industry rounds up the curriculum in the best way!