Industrialization and Decarbonization of the Construction Process

建筑施工是一个重要的工业部门，但它在创新方面落后，采用传统方法，浪费率高，人为错误，返工和职业危害。为了解决这些问题，将追求以下目标：（1）描述当前做法的特点，并使用精益概念来提高非现场建筑施工部门的生产力;（2）开发技术，促进非现场建筑施工部门的机械化和自动化;（3）开发建筑制造业数据驱动规划和管理框架;（4）提出一个基于建筑信息模型（BIM）的框架，以自动化制造起草和设计，自动化温室气体评估，并自动化建筑系统能源需求评估，以支持低能耗建筑技术;（5）应用基于人工智能（AI）的工具，以数字化制造过程;（6）通过人类工程学研究改善职业安全;（7）制定一个框架，以便使用移动的起重机在现场安装预制建筑部件。环境效益：（i）进行基于模拟/比较的二氧化碳量化，作为制定低生态影响建筑做法的基础;（ii）减少材料浪费;及（iii）透过应用BIM、自动绘图及设计，以及先进的自动化，尽量减少制造过程的排放。职业健康益处：开发制造技术和最佳实践，通过人体工程学措施提高安全性。这将涉及智能工作评估和物理需求分析，以建立建筑制造业伤害预防的最佳实践。经济效益：通过以下方式为加拿大经济做出贡献：（i）促进创造就业机会，包括自动化方面的熟练职位;（ii）通过减少人为错误，减少返工，并通过自动化实现连续生产来提高生产力;（iii）培训HQP拥有实施工业化的专业知识;（iv）通过更高效的建筑流程提高可负担性;以及（v）开发可出口的建筑产品/部件。

Building construction is an important industrial sector, yet it is lagging in innovation, employing conventional methods with high rates of waste, human error, rework, and occupational hazards. To address these issues, the following objectives will be pursued: (1) characterize the current practice and use lean concepts to improve the productivity of the offsite building construction sector; (2) develop technologies to facilitate mechanization and automation of the offsite building construction sector; (3) develop a framework for data-driven planning and management in construction manufacturing; (4) propose a building information modelling (BIM)-based framework to automate drafting and design for manufacturing, automate the assessment of GHG, and automate the assessment of building system energy demand to support low-energy building technologies; (5) apply artificial intelligence (AI)-based tools to digitalize the manufacturing process; (6) improve occupational safety through ergonomics studies; and (7) develop a framework for onsite installation of prefabricated building components using mobile cranes.ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS: (i) carry out simulation-based/comparative CO2 quantification as the basis for developing low-ecological impact construction practices; (ii) reduce material waste; and (iii) minimize emissions from the manufacturing process through the application of BIM, automated drafting and design, and advanced automation. OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH BENEFITS: develop manufacturing technologies and best practices that improve safety through ergonomic measures. This will involve intelligent work assessments and physical demand analysis to establish best practices for injury prevention in construction manufacturing. ECONOMIC BENEFITS: contribute to Canada's economy by: (i) contributing to job creation, including skilled positions in automation; (ii) improving productivity by mitigating human error, reducing rework, and enabling continuous production through automation; (iii) training HQP with expertise in implementing industrialization; (iv) enhancing affordability through more efficient construction processes; and (v) developing exportable building products/components.