What is construction? Details What it is and what is Coming Next
What is construction? She details what it is, how it has evolved, and what is coming next—in terms of emerging technologies. Particularly, she hones in on how construction and building things are becoming more of a virtual experience, not unlike playing video games and using apps.
What is construction? Details What it is and what is Coming Next
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Construction jobs they're not what they used to be. the low-paying back-breaking jobs of the past, nope they are highly-skilled high-paying technical careers. We're not talking about the future but today seriously have you looked inside the cab of a crane lately you will see a window with a few color monitors, a control panel joystick, a touchpad, remote control console, and a foot pedal control.
Crane operators must focus on one job and that's top pick-up material and to put it down, to some it might sound like an arcade game, however. It takes dedication and hours of training to operate a crane.
But crane operators do get all the comforts of working in an office high in the sky as the cab does come equipped with air conditioning an ergonomic chair refrigerator and a microwave. Construction and Technology are changing but technology is only part of the change in construction.
Construction let's think about it what is it's a little history lesson.
What is construction ?
Basically, construction as we all know it is building things. The things are large and moveable for the most part and designed to house people and wealthy things.
Construction is a term that has the meaning of art and science to form a particular object, system, or organization. In short, construction is the art of building something.
Humans have been building shelters for themselves in their possessions since caves were enlarged for families for tens of thousands of years. People have been piling stones on top of one another to create walls and by joining walls and houses and other buildings. Before that tree limbs were stacked to make shelters and nomads used animal skins stitched together to make tents.
There has always been a lot of science involved in construction. Thousands of years ago Egyptians figured out how to build pyramids with stones too heavy for a human or even hundreds of humans working together to lift into place.
Archaeologists now feel they use ramps and human power but even that theory is contested. Basic machine theory using lovers inclined planes or ramps wheels gears and all the rest. Has been a backbone of construction from even earlier, humans found a way to multiply their strength and the strength of animals like the horse and mule with machines.
They learn to combine machines to increase their ability, lovers and pulleys and gears produce cranes and pull Derek's, steam, and then gasoline provided additional power today we have a new form of innovation.
Computers can lighten the load in the office other technology on the job site can be used to improve worker results. Lasers are used to measure and survey sites and the buildings on them. Any technology that is developed eventually ends up involved in construction it seems.
The point is whether you like playing video games or using apps on your phone all have parallels in construction kids have been playing with construction-related toys for hundreds of years, long before Bob the Builder came along on TV think Legos are for those older kids watching, Lincoln Logs and erector sets.
But those are the physical toys and manual play, today playing at building things is all too often a virtual experience.
" You can learn how buildings go together on a computer screen. But it's just not the same as piling blocks on top of one another "
We are creating today's kids out of the satisfaction of something real in front of them when they are all done at building something, high schools in many parts of the country are providing their students with access to advanced stem, science technology, engineering, and mathematics classes. But in the process, they are cutting out woodworking, and metalworking shop classes are being replaced by stem classes.
Future carpenters and electricians don't get the support that future ethical computer hackers get. How can those in the construction industry be contractors and trades? Both work to solve this bias, unions were the traditional first-line of training in construction but they are the shadow of what they were 50 years and more ago.
Apprenticeships are a long-term proposition, not a quick turnaround. All too many high schools graduates might find construction trades interesting. Are turned off by the time it takes to get up to speed, universities, and colleges especially two-year Community Colleges.
What were and in many states still are called trade schools can offer a shorter time to a career, these schools are almost more technology-oriented than many unions halls and can if properly affiliated with local construction leaders provide on-the-job training will along with classroom work.
Let's not forget getting paid while learning. As an example of what's being done at this level, junior colleges and universities are offering combined classroom and apprenticeship programs. With local unions looking at all the new technology digital twins, ARV are been a mixed reality, cybersecurity, black chamber artificial intelligence, machine learning, and so much more advanced digitization.
There can be no future in construction, no advancement in techniques and technology without the current generation offering support to train the next and future generations, we all must work together.