明天建筑业面临的两个重大挑战 - 它的未来劳动力和迫在眉睫的气候变化灾难 - 领导了8月2日至4日在奥兰多举行的第一次面对面,建筑工业学院联合会议和建筑用户圆桌会议。

研究团队的成员专注于2030年的劳动力,指出,持续的行业趋势和关于建筑工作的方式以及谁完成的方式的预测并不总是证明。

尽管行业做出了努力,但建筑工人的平均年龄从1994年的36.8岁增加到2020年的42.9。

And while “our industry has talked about construction robots coming to save us for 40 or 50 years,” Timothy Taylor, professor of engineering and project management at the University of Kentucky, said, “they're largely not here yet, and they're not going to be here in 2030, at least how we typically think about them.”

取而代之的是,到2030年,泰勒(Taylor)认为,人为辅助的机器人技术可以为老化的建筑劳动力提供生产力的提高。他说:“也许这是我们看到的一种改善的方式。”

There’s clear room for improvement. For instance, the research team’s presentation noted that supervisors spend less than 40% of their time supervising. To address that particular shortcoming, Taylor said, contractors should seek out technology that helps supervisors to “be at the work face, getting the work done and not sitting in a jobsite trailer trying to get the latest piece of technology that's not working to work.”

科罗拉多州立大学建筑管理部门负责人保罗·古德鲁姆(Paul Goodrum)博士说,Multiskilling是工匠经过多项交易的认证,是另一种趋势,并未完全按计划进行。他说,自1990年代后期作为较小劳动力的劳动策略以来,“现实有些不同”,这可能会引起其他未来的挑战。

For instance, the increase in the percentage of craft workers’ spouses who are employed—which is up from roughly 50% in 1980 to more than 80% in 2010—is driving the unintended consequence of decreasing worker mobility.

Essentially, says Daniel Groves, director of strategic initiatives with CURT, “If you're a craft worker in a dual-income household, you are considerably less likely and less flexible in terms of either moving or traveling.”

结果,格罗夫斯说:“多弯曲开始替代移动性。”他补充说,移动性“在我们的行业中非常重要”,尤其是在像墨西哥湾沿岸这样的地区,在那里非常依赖工艺工人。

他断言,因此该行业应考虑采用更多的预制。格罗夫斯说:“我认为,如果我们要抓住它,我们的行业就有一个真正的机会。”

Is Climate Change Looming?

阻止气候变化的影响为时已晚?这是会议问答环节的第一个听众问题,其中一个面板讨论了可再生燃料,碳捕获和碳管理的主题。

为了应对挑战,负排放技术必须发挥作用。

油田服务公司贝克·休斯(Baker Hughes)的执行合伙人奈杰尔·詹维(Nigel Jenvey)说:“没有碳捕获,就没有净零。”“从根本上重要的是通过诸如生物能源等负排放技术实现净零。”

Continuum Advisory Group总裁Kelcey Henderson提供了比较。她说:“我认为我们都在考虑这一点,就好像我们在一个燃烧的平台上一样。确实,我们的行为好像平台只是闷闷不乐。我认为这就是挂断成本发生的地方。”

亨德森给C的例子alifornia utility PG&E’s recent announcement that it would spend $30 billion on underground power lines. “Eventually, the platform really did catch fire, and they found the money that they thought was impossible to find.”

微软公司企业副总裁吉姆·埃利斯(Jim Ellis)在较早的演讲中强调了他公司为应对气候变化的全球努力,并恳请CII-Curt的参与者参加战斗。

“Frankly, we’re polluting the heck out of this Earth,” he told those in attendance. “I believe one of the key solutions is, how do we work together, collaboratively at the intersection of technology and science to make a difference?”