Flexible Robotic Assembly Modules for the Built Environment - FRAMBE

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The research undertaken by the University of Reading (UoR) as part of this project focusses on the identification of culturalchange requirements to enable flexible manufacturing and FRAMBE to become a viable, mainstream approach toconstruction activity. It supports the technical and process development activities undertaken across the consortium.Initially, it involves assessments of consortium and supply chain readiness in terms of implementing flexible manufacturetechniques, identification of potential social and cultural barriers to implementation and the development of strategies tosupport this for the pilot projects (WP2 / objective 1). Following this, UoR will monitor and evaluate the pilots, focussing onemerging cultural and working practice change requirements such as required skills, alignment of expectations andintegration of practices and process (WP 5 / objective 2). Post-pilot, the research activities will move to proposing newbusiness models and identifying change management steps to enable the necessary cultural change and work practicereconfiguration to mainstream these new ways of working. These may include skills and capability identification, trainingand mentoring arrangements, incentives and management systems, and leadership approaches to support cultural change(WP 6 / objective 3).UoR will also participate alongside BRE and the rest of the project consortium in the overall evaluation and disseminationof the project's broader outputs to construction sector, policy and academic audiences as per the dissemination plan andpathways to impact.