可以充分利用新兴技术的工程师
我是密切参与设置设计for Manufacture (DfM) Master of Architecture course at the UCL, which I now teach alongside Deputy Programme Director, Peter Scully, and Programme Director, Bob Sheil, amongst others.
The Bartlett School is renowned for award-winning innovative research and our new “Here East” site in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park has been founded to bring engineering and architectural research under one roof.
我们的重点是生产行业需要的毕业生：知道如何协作并充分利用新兴技术来建设城市和未来的结构。
许多部门 - 巴特利特学校，土木工程系和其他部门在这里共享空间。
这个想法是鼓励部门之间，跨不同技能和专业的合作 - 尽管这并不能阻止空间和资源竞争！
Design and production informing each other
Each department has its own focus, so the collaborative opportunities are there to be discovered rather than prescribed.
The important thing is that we have lots of space and tools, and people thinking how to use them in a useful, productive way - where the design and production inform each other and create unexpected synergies.
一个例子是机器人：当数字设计过程they have the potential to make more efficient structures using less material, through more bespoke or additive fabrication that reduces the reliance on pre-rolled sections.
机器人技术还具有从根本上改变时间和劳动与结构制造和组装中的材料使用的平衡。
Freeing engineers to think and work more creatively
This is a really exciting area. Partial automation of both design and fabrication, letting scripts and robots to do the ‘donkey’ work of design and production, frees up engineers to think and work more creatively - knowing that we can deliver something that won’t hit the buffers when labour requirements are costed.
I think it will allow us to do things that we wouldn’t do now anyway because the time to do it manually (either in design or production) is too cost prohibitive.
伟大研究的重要性
反过来，这使得研究going on at Here East more important. In a way we all do research when we try out new things to solve a specific design problem.
但是，大学对了解和探索机器人技术以及其他未来技术和技术的潜力以及在工程和建筑环境中开发其他行业的应用是必要的。
The challenge we have when adapting technologies and methods from other industries, is that we produce bespoke and one-off objects, rather than lots of copies of the same thing (like say the auto industry).
但是，例如，立面具有很大的重复性，并且可以轻松使用此技术。我们需要开发脚本软件，使其可行，可以向机器发送大量定制说明，而不是为一个生产过程优化机器。
How digital manufacturing may be useful for structural engineers
The Institution’s数字工作流程和计算设计面板与Bartlett学校具有相同的理念：通过帮助确定数字制造的哪些方面可能对结构工程师有用，以帮助鼓励研究和创新行业的需求。
我们的目标是通过未来几年通过文章，讲座，笔记和其他资源为会员提供指导。
This is an ever-evolving field that’s in its infancy, and it’s an exciting challenge to help structural engineers make best use of the opportunities available.