Exploring Digital Twins, Machine-Human Collaboration, and Sustainable Construction

The workshop aims to showcase the projects within the TECH4EUCONSTRUCTION cluster and the main technologies they are developing. This cluster brings together projects funded by the European Commission, with the goal of developing and demonstrating new technologies to digitalize and automate the European building sector. Additionally, it addresses challenges such as the use of sustainable materials, skilled workforce, and waste management. These projects will collectively offer a session focused on digital twins, machine-human collaboration, and innovative sustainable materials. The workshop’s objective, besides sharing results, is to facilitate networking among projects and foster synergies. We aim for the session to be interactive, with sufficient time allocated for a panel discussion among project representatives moderated by a facilitator. This workshop marks the first joint workshop of the TECH4EUCONSTRUCTION cluster collaboration.

About the projects:

This marks INCUBE’s second consecutive year of participation in Sustainable Places, with a renewed focus on its digital twins technologies and sustainable materials, with two different partners representing the project to give a new perspective.

The HumanTech project brings AI to construction addressing topics such as Scan-to-BIM and construction Robotics and Wearables.

Reincarnate project is developing technical and social means to give new opportunities to buildings, construction products and materials — thus maximising their life cycle and determining if they are suitable for reuse.

To date, the European construction sector is facing challenges that are hampering its competitiveness, such as a lack of digital skills and the need to improve safety, efficiency, and gender equality. BEEYONDERS’ core ambition is to address these challenges by producing, commercializing and integrating beyond the state-of-the-art solutions into real construction scenarios. To do so, the project will make extensive use of AI, automation, and digitisation.

HERON is developing an integrated automated system to perform maintenance and upgrading roadworks, such as sealing cracks, patching potholes and painting markings. The system also aims to support visual inspections and dispensing and removing traffic cones in an automated and controlled manner.

Contributing projects:

• INCUBE
• HumanTech
• Reincarnate
• BEEYONDERS
• HERON
• RoBétArmé

Speakers:

Jason Raphael Rambach, DFKI – Edgar Valverde, PNO consultants – Fernando Sigchos Jimenez, EBC – Dimitrios Giakoumis, CERTH – ITI – Andre Van Delft, Demo Consultants – Nikos Bakalos, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) – Douwe Feitsma, VW – Carlos D. Huertas, RINA-C – Carlota Perez-Bouzada, REHVA