From the outside, it looks like a clean, modern social housing block.
We use a lot of prefab, he adds.
That reduces the need for on-site labour.
Prefabricated construction relies on factory-made parts or components of buildings that are joined together on-site.
The firm offers architecturalsoftwareplugins containing libraries full of these prefab components.
It makes the process of designing a building a bit like playing with digital Lego.
The firm has raised more than 35 million euros to date and has 90 employees.
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As in many European countries,demand for housing in Spain is currently outpacing supply.
Now, various Europeanstartupsare coming up with a raft of ideas to try and mitigate these problems.
Our goal is to improve productivity, says Carne.
Probably the biggest problem this industry is facing is that productivity is stagnant.
Build with digital Lego
Traditionally, construction is a woefully disjointed business.
011h takes a different stance.
Plus, construction time is also shortened, by around 30% versus the average, claims Carne.
There is often resistance to new ways of doing things in the construction sector, he notes.
These arms work tirelessly to produce modular building units.
Then theyre craned onto site by humans.
AUAR has 17 employees and has raised 2.6 million.
We just built a two-storey building in Belgium, says Retsin.
They will then pay a further small charge per square metre of building produced.
However, bricklayers are among the workerscurrently in very short supply.
Monumental, based in Amsterdam, has an alternative.
I will quote you a price and do it for you but I will do it with robots.
Pointing, however neatly finishing the exposed mortar joints visible between bricks still has to be done manually.
Though he notes that human oversight and finishing of tasks is still required.
Thats really exciting to me, says al Khafaji, That gets beauty back into our built environment.
