The Performance of Time & Motion Studies on a Prototype Construction using the Educopod Construction System

“要么现代化，要么灭亡”：这是政府官方的《农民评论》（Farmer Review）针对建筑行业的生产率危机发出的黯淡的呼吁。人均生产率多年来一直停滞不前，而建筑劳动力正在迅速老龄化，没有被取代，因此急剧下降。如果我们要满足社会的建筑需求，那么我们需要追求以下两个目标中的至少一个：首先，从根本上加快建筑进程，使现有的建筑工人能够建造更多的建筑物；其次，从根本上对施工过程进行技能化，扩大潜在建筑劳动力的范围。我们的革命性、专利申请和结构工程师批准的建筑系统旨在做到这两点，而这个项目的目标就是测试和量化这一点。该项目主要集中在两个时间和运动的研究，一个检查这些目标。第一项研究将包括一个由四名经验丰富的建筑商组成的团队，他们将使用我们的系统在安全可行的情况下尽快完成各种组装任务，最终完成整个简单建筑的建造。本研究的数据和记录将用于确定装配的最佳实践，并量化有经验的建造者使用我们的系统可以合理达到的装配速度水平。第二次研究将重复第一次研究，只有从第一次研究中学到的东西和完全没有施工经验的熟练装配人员。第二项研究的数据和记录将用于分析非熟练装配工和熟练装配工之间的表现差距，目的是改进我们的培训材料，从而扩大我们系统扩大建筑劳动力池的潜力。我们这个时代在建筑领域面临的挑战是创新方法，使施工更快和/或更简单，我们的项目旨在迎接这一挑战，并通过实验证明这一点。

"Modernise or Die": this was the bleak call-to-arms issued by the Government's official Farmer Review into the productivity crisis in the construction sector. Productivity per worker has been stagnant for many years, whilst the construction workforce is rapidly ageing without being replaced and is therefore in steep decline.If we are to meet the construction needs of our society then we need to pursue at least one of two goals: firstly, to radically speed up the construction process, to enable a given construction workforce to build an increased number of buildings; secondly, to radically deskill the construction process, to widen the pool of the potential construction workforce. Our revolutionary, patent-pending and structural engineer-approved construction system aims at doing both --- and it is the goal of this project to test and quantify this.The project mainly focuses on two Time & Motion studies, one to examine each of these goals. The first study will involve a team of four experienced builders to use our system to perform a variety of assembly tasks as quickly as is safely feasible, finishing with the construction of an entire simple building.The data and recordings from this study will be used to ascertain best practices for assembly and to quantify the level of assembly speed that experienced builders can reasonably attain with our system.The second study will repeat the first, only with the benefit of what has been learnt from the first study and with completely unskilled assemblers with no construction experience.The data and recordings from this second study will be used to analyse performance gaps between the unskilled and skilled assemblers, with the intent of improving our training materials and thus expanding the potential for our system to expand the construction labour pool.The challenge of our times in the construction sector is to innovate ways to make construction faster and/or simpler, and our project aims to meet this challenge and experimentally prove it.