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Volume 171, Issue 3
1 August 2018
Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Civil Engineering Cover Image for Volume 171, Issue 3
Brief Report| July 02 2018

Using robots to help close the gap between designing and making Available to Purchase

Andrew Watts
Andrew Watts
For further information please contact: Andrew Watts Tel: +44 7962 550970 Email: watts@newtecnic.com Web: www.newtecnic.com
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For further information please contact: Andrew Watts Tel: +44 7962 550970 Email: watts@newtecnic.com Web: www.newtecnic.com
Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1751-7672
Print ISSN: 0965-089X
ICE Publishing: All rights reserved
2018
Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Civil Engineering (2018) 171 (3): 100.
https://doi.org/10.1680/jcien.2018.171.3.100

The construction industry’s approach to design for manufacture and assembly is to use remote off-site factories. Andrew Watts of Newtecnic says greater use of robotics and local, flexible ‘construction laboratories’ is a better way.

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2018
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