Key theme ___ Process reliability and workplace safety
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Key theme ___ Process reliability and workplace safety
What is process monitoring and workplace safety?
People-appropriate work vs. work-appropriate people
As with conventional construction, precise controls and monitoring by skilled workers and on-site management personnel will be indispensable for the new automated technologies of the construction of the future. The growing shortage of skilled workers, the increasingly pressurized deadlines for execution and the new hazards that are likely to arise when using pioneering technologies with a high degree of automation require that particular attention be paid to process monitoring and workplace safety.
Integration into existing processes
The new processes from the parallel key projects—construction robotics, 3D concrete printing, digitalization of conventional construction equipment—and the associated processes and structures have to be integrated into existing processes, or existing processes have to be adapted.
Areas of work
First measure, then analyze, and finally optimize
Process monitoring and workplace safety on construction sites gives rise to a large number of research and development studies.
One important area is the development and implementation of advanced monitoring systems that can track construction progress in real time and identify potential safety risks at an early stage. Investigations are also underway of the validity of existing building construction and civil engineering processes, and the effectiveness of existing safety guidelines, in order to uncover potential for optimization.
Further research is focusing on the ergonomics of equipment and environments, the effects of dust, noise and vibration on workers’ health and the development of new protective clothing and equipment.
Work on the key project, which relates to process monitoring and workplace safety on construction sites, is therefore an integral part of research and development on all key themes being examined at CFLab.
