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Turning the Tide in the Construction Industry: From Traditional Construction Safety Measures to an Innovative Automated Approach

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An Economic Analysis on Automated Construction Safety

Abstract

The construction industry has been viewed as labour intensive with many accidents occurring on sites around the world. Many construction companies have implemented various types of construction safety measures to reduce the likelihood of accidents on sites. We will first shed light on the conventional means to alleviate construction safety risks with an example of a large-scale company that rents a factory site to serve as a safety-training centre. Posters and slogans display at Seattle and Adelaide construction sites will illustrate more traditional forms of training and warnings. We then move on to provide a brief introduction to various kinds of automated construction tools, such as robots, virtual reality, the Internet of things, and additive manufacturing which completely transform traditional works in the construction industry. The objectives and research methods adopted in this book will also be stated.

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Notes

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    Author’s interview results with two construction companies in Hong Kong.

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    Although the authors suggest safety as one of the merits, they have not elaborated on the relationship between 3D-printing and construction safety.

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Li, R.Y.M. (2018). Turning the Tide in the Construction Industry: From Traditional Construction Safety Measures to an Innovative Automated Approach. In: An Economic Analysis on Automated Construction Safety. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5771-7_1

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