Abstract
Global efforts and sector-wide commitments to reducing the contribution of the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry to the climate change have started showing positive impacts. Automation enabled by smart and autonomous technologies contributes to the efficacy and efficiency of the process and product, thereby paving the way towards an N-Z society.
While Industry 4.0 frees up time to focus more on planning, strategizing, innovation, and technology-based creativity and development, Industry 5.0 will be concentrating, more at meta-levels, on prosperity beyond jobs and growth, on the well-being of employees, and on holistic health of/in the built and natural environments.
Multi-level perspective (MLP) and Disruptive Innovation Theory will be employed as theoretical underpinning for a prominent transition framework to envision potential shifts towards automation in construction through advancements in large scale 3D printing and additive manufacturing in a post Industry 4.0 era. Enabled by smart technologies, the future scenarios of 3D printing and additive manufacturing will be drawn upon; the futures which would either intervene, disrupt, improve, or revolutionize the status-quo of the common practice in the AEC industry with a main focus on their ecological impacts.
While Industry 4.0 frees up time to focus more on planning, strategizing, innovation, and technology-based creativity and development, Industry 5.0 will be concentrating, more at meta-levels, on prosperity beyond jobs and growth, on the well-being of employees, and on holistic health of/in the built and natural environments.
Multi-level perspective (MLP) and Disruptive Innovation Theory will be employed as theoretical underpinning for a prominent transition framework to envision potential shifts towards automation in construction through advancements in large scale 3D printing and additive manufacturing in a post Industry 4.0 era. Enabled by smart technologies, the future scenarios of 3D printing and additive manufacturing will be drawn upon; the futures which would either intervene, disrupt, improve, or revolutionize the status-quo of the common practice in the AEC industry with a main focus on their ecological impacts.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | The Routledge Companion to Smart Design Thinking in Architecture & Urbanism for a Sustainable, Living Planet |
| Editors | Mitra Kanaani |
| Place of Publication | London |
| Publisher | Routledge/Taylor & Francis |
| Chapter | 6.3 |
| Pages | 643 |
| Number of pages | 651 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781003384113 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781032469904 |
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| Publication status | Published - 11 Nov 2024 |