Everything up there and much more exists today
does it in one continuous pipeline - no
Does it need to in order to reduce labor - no
Site surveying used to take forever - now use a few Leica scans and you get near perfect input - at minumum a huge speed up.
This feeds directly into bim - huge speed up
Drones automatically surveying - all happening already.
All the speedups that come from bim coordination
Integrate it with how stuff is bring made and you get further speed ups
Even in LA plant prefab does it for smaller projects already today
All the robotic stuff - checkout Europe
All these workflows exit
So do I think that in 8 years this stuff can be deployed if the right leadership is pushing - absolutely yes and that doesn’t even account for all the humanoid robots that will further expand what is possible within that time frame
Threw a few thoughts together. This is just a starting point. Keep in mind alot of this has been going on in parallel but is converging. All it now takes is jurisdictions that facilitate workflows like this. But in short ever step of construction will be touched, humans will still be there but you need fewer.
First shift unpredictable field labor into a highly efficient, tech-driven digital ecosystem.
It starts on-site, with autonomous surveying robots and drones handling the time-consuming tasks of reality capture, feeding hyper-accurate spatial data directly into a dynamic digital model.
This master digital blueprint directly drives off-site factories, where advanced automation precision-crafts modular rooms and mass timber (CLT) systems, cutting on-site assembly time by up to 50% with a fraction of the traditional crew.
On the physical job site, large-scale robotic 3D printers handle the strenuous, high-risk work of constructing complex concrete foundations and structural cores.
Finally, nimble service robots take over the remaining repetitive, physically punishing tasks like layout marking and drywall finishing, allowing a lean, tech-savvy workforce to safely manage multiple automated systems at once.
Its not magic, it decisions and a vision driving them.
You said there is a shortage of workers, automation helps with that.
Half DTLA is empty, if you remove the homeless and clean up the streets, there are thousand of units that free up right in the center, where people could live in walkable distance to work, not needing cars etc.
DTLA today is a mess, but with the weather the historic buildings and all the cultural institutions it skiing be a pearl where 2-5 as many people as today should be living.
@lilibalfour@Bobby_LaVallley@spencerpratt The amount of automation that is going to roll out in the next 5 years makes this all possible ! The question is, is the person running the show ready to put legislation and money behind it.