05-03-2015, 10:47 AM
There is a lot of inertia in building practices. If we had never built a building before, nearly nothing would be constructed on site. It would all be one big quick game of lego using concrete only here and there as glue (or shall we say cement) between the precast pieces and only in critical junctions. In most places a simple overlapping mechanism works.
In houses nowadays is common to preorder the roof timbers cut and assembled, but really when you think about it walls ought to be preassembled too. I worked with an civil engineer a long time ago that was looking into this. You take the measurements in site, using lasers and those are transmitted back to the mill/fabrication facility, where they are
assembled in flat bed truck sizes and lifted into place with a small crane.
In houses nowadays is common to preorder the roof timbers cut and assembled, but really when you think about it walls ought to be preassembled too. I worked with an civil engineer a long time ago that was looking into this. You take the measurements in site, using lasers and those are transmitted back to the mill/fabrication facility, where they are
assembled in flat bed truck sizes and lifted into place with a small crane.