In this month’s Harvard Business Review, Mark Erlich gives a summation of construction’s hesitant relationship with technology. “Industry observers routinely deride the lack of technological sophistication in the construction industry and have pigeon-hol
, Mark Erlich gives a summation of construction’s hesitant relationship with technology.
Erlich traces the construction industry’s decades-old reluctance to embrace labour-saving devices, detailing anecdotes such as the tradesman who threw an electric circular saw off the roof of the building saying, “The saw’s too fast; I’m going to cut my hand.”SUBMITTED PHOTO — In 1901, The French Artist Villemard Imagined A Construction Site In 2000 Controlled By The Architect And Entirely Robotic.
Slow adoption of robotics is not really related to fears of job displacement. In fact, if there was a time to bulk up on robotics it would be today, when labour shortages across all trades make headlines in the popular press.
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