Robotic bricklaying: can Hadrian and other construction robots fix the brickie shortage?
Bricklaying is the scarcest trade in Australia. A Perth-built robot can lay the walls of a block house in a day, and other robots are tying rebar and marking out slabs. What they can really do, and what they need from builders.
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Robotic bricklaying: can Hadrian and other construction robots fix the brickie shortage?
Bricklaying is the scarcest trade in Australia. A Perth-built robot can lay the walls of a block house in a day, and other robots are tying rebar and marking out slabs. What they can really do, and what they need from builders.
8 min read
3D printed houses in Australia: what has been built, what it costs, and what is still unproven
Australia now has 3D printed homes with occupation certificates, social housing printed in weeks, and a multi-storey printed house in Melbourne. How the technology works, and what a builder should believe about the claims.
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Prefab and modular construction in Australia: how it works, what it costs and where it fails
Governments want more homes built in factories. From wall frames to complete modules, this is how prefabrication works, where it genuinely saves time, and the site interfaces that decide whether it succeeds.
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NSW passes building approvals overhaul and Australia’s first laws for prefabricated homes
NSW Parliament has passed reforms that bring building approvals under one piece of legislation, recognise prefabricated buildings in law for the first time in Australia, and hit certifier conflicts of interest with fines up to $1.1 million.
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Mass timber in Australia: CLT, glulam and what builders need to know before using it
Sydney’s Atlassian Central has just topped out as the world’s tallest hybrid timber tower. Mass timber is also turning up in social housing and townhouses. Here is how it works and what a builder has to get right.
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