Hear Phil Bernstein, Vice President for Strategic Industry Relations at Autodesk discuss the ideas he shared in his Line//Space//Shape commentary "Future of Construction: Your Next Building Won’t Be Built—It Will Be Manufactured".   Phil notes a key trend in AEC for more parts of buildings being pre-fabricated, with manufacturing practices coming into play more than ever before. A combination of factors impacting this trend: 1.emergence of digitally driven ways to "make things" [robotics, laser scanning, etc. - technologies that make it easier to close the gap between the real world and digital design]; 2, financial crisis of the "big recession" changed the makeup of the construction workforce reduced the workforce, with younger people not going into construction; 3, barriers to computer manufacturing costs have gone down, and a new generation of designers coming out of schools with experience in such things as 3D printing.  All factors driving pre-fabrication for buildings.

Phil Bernstein Commentary - Your Next Building Won’t Be Built—It Will Be Manufactured

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