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

“现代化或死亡”：这是政府官方的《农民评论》对建筑业生产力危机发出的惨淡的战斗号令。工人的生产力多年来一直停滞不前，而建造业的劳动力却迅速老化，无人接替，因而急剧下降。如果我们要满足社会对建造业的需求，我们最少需要追求两个目标中的一个：第一，从根本上加快建造过程，使特定的建造业劳动力能够建造更多的建筑物;第二，彻底提高建造工序的技术水平，以增加可供雇用的建造业工人数目。我们革命性的、正在申请专利的、结构工程师批准的建筑系统旨在实现这两个目标-本项目的目标是测试和量化这一点。本项目主要关注两项Time & Motion研究，其中一项研究旨在检查这些目标。第一项研究将涉及一个由四名经验丰富的建造者组成的团队，他们将使用我们的系统在安全可行的情况下尽快执行各种装配任务，完成整个简单建筑的建造。这项研究的数据和记录将用于确定装配的最佳实践，并量化经验丰富的建筑商可以合理地使用我们的系统达到的装配速度水平。第二项研究将重复进行第一项研究，仅从第一项研究中学到的知识和完全没有施工经验的非熟练装配工中获益。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性能差距，目的是改进我们的培训材料，从而扩大我们系统的潜力，扩大建筑劳动力库。在建筑领域，创新的方法是使建筑更快和/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.