Author: Golden Bean
Source: Zhenghe Island
Just last month, China's new urban infrastructure construction pilot expansion, increased to 21 cities (districts), in order to accelerate the promotion of digital, networked, intelligent new urban infrastructure construction, explore the accumulation of replicable, scalable mechanism model. Among them, as one of the key tasks, promoting the coordinated development of intelligent construction and building industrialization, creating a construction industry Internet, and developing a new industry of intelligent construction have once again become the focus of industry attention.
In recent years, under the situation of the country's vigorous promotion of "intelligent construction and new building industrialization", construction robots and intelligent construction equipment have become hot topics and key areas of concern in the construction industry. Promoting the digital transformation of the construction industry and solving many industry problems such as the aging of construction workers, the low willingness of young workers to engage, and the low degree of automation have become common challenges faced by the real estate industry.
01, when the development of housing enterprises "robots", it is not so simple
Ding Lieyun, a deputy to the National People's Congress and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said: "China's construction industry has created many world firsts, but it is also facing problems such as poor product performance, huge waste of resources, prominent safety problems, serious environmental pollution, and low production efficiency. ”
In July last year, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and 13 other ministries and commissions jointly issued the "Guiding Opinions on Promoting the Coordinated Development of Intelligent Construction and Building Industrialization", which clearly pointed out that it is necessary to vigorously develop building industrialization as the carrier, take digitalization and intelligent upgrading as the driving force, increase the application of intelligent construction in all aspects of engineering construction, and form an intelligent construction industry system that integrates the whole industrial chain including scientific research, design, production and processing, construction assembly, and operation.
Under the influence of the comprehensive factors of national promotion, industry change, market regulation and change, it is not difficult to understand that Country Garden put forward the goal of "robot".
In recent years, as Country Garden has continued to increase investment in the field of science and technology, the era of real estate technology in China seems to be opening up. Through combing, it is not difficult to find that Country Garden's layout and promotion speed in the field of robotics are amazing.
In July 2018, Country Garden established a wholly-owned subsidiary, Guangdong Bozhilin Robot Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Bozhilin"), focusing on the research and development, production and application of construction robots, intelligent engineering equipment and new building industrialization products to promote the level of building industrialization; based on BIM digital technology, establish an industrial Internet platform that runs through the whole life cycle of buildings; introduce lean construction concepts, create and practice new building construction organizational methods; and help the transformation and upgrading of the construction industry. Explore a new path for high-quality sustainable development in the industry.
In just over 3 years, Country Garden has achieved amazing results in its technological accumulation and breakthrough in the field of robotics. Relevant data show that as of the end of November 2021, the R&D team of Bozhilin has more than 4,000 people, has submitted 3461 valid patent applications, 1640 authorized, and 46 construction robots under research; related research and development products have won many awards such as China Patent Award, IF Design Award, Red Dot Award, IDEA Award, Red Star Award, Golden Reed Award and so on.
Floor paint coating robot
Since the second half of this year, Country Garden has actively promoted the pilot project of robot building in all regions of the country. As of the end of November, 18 construction robots have been put into commercial application, covering 25 provinces, more than 280 projects, with a cumulative delivery of more than 600 units and a cumulative application construction area of more than 5.5 million square meters.
Ground leveling robot operation
At present, Bozhilin Robot has gradually realized human-machine collaboration and multi-machine collaborative operation, explored large-scale construction in complex construction scenarios, and formed an intelligent construction system solution covering the whole life cycle of construction projects. On the evening of November 28, the construction robot of Bozhilin Company appeared again on CCTV's "News Network" as a benchmark case for high-quality development in Guangdong Province.
The "News Network" report shows the Primus Grove office building
02, the robot will contract most of the work on the construction site?
Looking back at the process of digital transformation and high-tech application in the construction industry in recent years, it is not difficult to find that Country Garden's "robot" strategy is not without purpose, and each step is in line with the cutting-edge pace of high-tech development in the construction field.
With the rapid development of science and technology, robots are increasingly being applied to the construction industry. In 2017, the British "Daily Mail" quoted a research report released by british construction company Balver Betty as saying that by 2050, robots will contract most of the work on construction sites, and can play multiple roles such as "construction workers", "cranes" and "drones patrolling sites".
Nowadays, developed markets such as Europe, the United States and Japan are also actively exploring the research and development and application of construction robots. Take the SAM100 bricklaying robot of The American Conference Robotics Company as an example, it is the world's first commercial robot that is really put into construction on the spot, and it is mainly used to cooperate with workers to complete masonry operations.
Swedish nLink's Mobile Drilling Robot is used to measure and drill the concrete ceiling, and through the special APP to set the parameters such as hole diameter and hole depth, you can punch holes in the specified position, which can achieve millimeter-level working accuracy.
Industry insiders believe that although China's construction robot research and development and commercial application in the world started late, the level of digitalization and intelligence of the construction industry is still in the exploratory stage, but as representative real estate enterprises such as Country Garden continue to "increase, accelerate and strengthen" R & D investment, commercial layout and scientific and technological competitiveness in the field of intelligent buildings, it is believed that during the 14th Five-Year Plan period, China's construction industry will be greatly improved due to backward construction means and construction methods, restricting the efficiency of the industry and the improvement of building quality Construction safety issues, industry recruitment difficulties, labor shortages and other prominent problems affecting the development of the construction industry will also be effectively improved.
03, the head of the enterprise vigorously promote the construction robot industry thinking
It is an indisputable fact that intelligent construction and digital transformation have become the key to breaking through the bottleneck of industry development. Nowadays, as the country has successively introduced relevant favorable policies, all sectors of society have paid more and more attention to the commercial application of robots and digital transformation in China's construction industry.
"21st Century Business Herald" reported that in 2020 alone, many ministries and commissions of the state have successively issued documents to vigorously promote the application of digital technologies represented by construction robots and artificial intelligence in the field of engineering construction, hoping to promote the transformation and upgrading of the construction industry with "China's intelligent manufacturing".
During this year's interim results meeting, Mo Bin, president of Country Garden Group, introduced that closely following the national policy direction, Country Garden focused on the layout of high-tech real estate ecological chain, in terms of real estate development, through the Bozhilin robot for intelligent construction, to create an intelligent construction system; with the help of modern Zhumei decoration and indoor home, forming a perfect upstream and downstream industrial chain.
Measure robot work scenarios
Professor Zhang Cymbal, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Dean of the Institute of Artificial Intelligence of Tsinghua University, said: "In just nearly 3 years, Country Garden Group has invested a lot of R&D resources and talents in the fields of BIM, prefabricated buildings and construction robots, carried out comprehensive research and development, and has delivered a large number of robots, and has been at the forefront of the field of intelligent construction and construction robots in the country and even the world. ”
Some analysts said that thanks to its forward-looking layout, clear business strategy and efficient execution, in 2021, under the background of cyclical adjustment in the real estate industry, Country Garden still achieved steady growth in operating performance with a broad and whole industry chain layout and a steady and down-to-earth style. Country Garden's technology-driven development and strengthening the synergy between new business and real estate main business will surely form a strong support for the company's future development.