E-Worksite

Buildings
Sectors	Buildings Utility
Contact	Wilfred Pinfold
Topics	E-Worksite Intelligent Building Low Income Housing Mobility Modular Buildings Next Generation Building Operations Organizational and Individual Productivity and Wellness of Smart Buildings Public Safety-Resilience and Regeneration of Communities Regenerative Urbanism Resilience Hubs Smart Building-related Mobility

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Many of today’s construction equipment trends are the result of advancements in digital technology, some of which reduce skilled labor requirements:

• Autonomous heavy equipment is now used to excavate, grade and perform a growing amount of work on construction sites.
• Autonomous drones and rovers use cameras and LiDAR to perform scans of a job site; then use artificial intelligence to determine daily progress against the schedule and to identify any errors.
• Specialized robots under human supervision can perform repetitive construction tasks such as bricklaying, painting, loading and tying rebar, with the ability to work nonstop.
• The Internet of Things (IoT) enables a digitally integrated construction process and job site. It includes smart construction machines with sensors that collect and transmit data to each other and with their home base.
• Predictive telematics and analytics send machine diagnostics alerts and other vital information to fleet managers and equipment owners for off-site management.

Growing demand for machine electrification in construction and other types of equipment continues to drive global development of new battery technologies.

• OEMs are converting equipment from lead-acid to lithium batteries, which are 20%-30% more efficient.
• Battery chargers are moving toward integration into the equipment they power.
• One leading manufacturer recently introduced the first fully electric backhoe loader at CONEXPO 2020. This

machine is powered by a 480V, 90kWh lithium-ion battery pack, capable of working a typical 8-hour day on a single charge. The global market for compact construction equipment is forecast to grow from more than $10 billion in 2017 to more than $15 billion in 2025. The electrification of these machines is easier than on large construction equipment and is a growing trend. One global OEM has announced that it will stop producing its diesel-powered versions, converting to an all-electric product line. The company is promoting them as small, quiet, zero-emissions machines for use in cities and densely populated areas.

Demonstration Projects

		[[Citizen App]]
		Citizen App, the first of its kind, empower individuals to claim and legally own their data from across multiple sources, then use it securely and seamlessly in everyday life.
		[[Go-Green]]
		GoGreen aims to help people understand the impact of small sustainable gestures on their communities through technology. It presents itself as a community rewards system where participating points providers can define actions that support their communities objectives and reward people for taking them. For the users they see a marketplace of options along with rewards based on secure blockchain based smart contracts for supportive behavior.
		[[Neighborhood Data for Social Change]]
		The Neighborhood Data for Social Change (NDSC) platform is a free, publicly available online resource for civic actors to learn about their communities.
		[[Open Participatory Budgeting]]
		Participatory budgeting (PB) is process in which citizens decide how to allocate part of a municipal or public budget through a process of democratic deliberation and decision-making. Participatory budgeting allows citizens or residents of a locality to identify, discuss, and prioritize public spending projects, and gives them the power to make real decisions about how money is spent.
		[[Personal Access System for Services (PASS)]]
		Social services are programs or services designed to support individuals and communities in need. They provide assistance with basic needs such as food, housing, and clothing, as well as health and medical care, education and job training, child care, support for individuals with disabilities or mental health conditions, and aging and elder care. These services are intended to improve the quality of life for individuals and communities and help individuals achieve self-sufficiency.
		[[Small Donor Elections]]
		The Small Donor Elections program seeks to reduce the influence of money in politics and encourage election of people to City office who are reflective of and accountable to all Portlanders.
		[[The Solid Project]]
		The Solid project is a decentralized platform for the Web that he and a team of researchers at MIT are developing. The goal of the Solid project is to give people more control over their personal data and how it is used by enabling them to store their data on their own servers or "pods," rather than on centralized servers controlled by companies.
		[[Urban Platform]]
		An easy-to-use platform that allows you to manage your city, whether you are responsible for traffic and mobility, safety, infrastructure or high-level decision making.

News

		[[Barcelona’s participatory democracy open source platform]]
		[[Digital Infrastructure Forum]]
		[[Digital Twin Consortium’s open-source now available to the public on GitHub]]
		[[FIWARE4Cities]]
		[[How Open-Source Software Makes Cities More Livable]]
		[[Impact of Open Source on the European economy]]
		[[MIMs Plus Technical Specifications final version 4 released]]
		[[Open Strategic Autonomy]]
		[[Open-source collaboration drives digital twin innovation]]