Construction Magazine January 2018 | Page 21

Controlling drone in warehouse
also want increased transparency and certainty of outcomes . A lot of what we ’ re experiencing now is driven by users or people . At Mace , innovation is everybody ’ s responsibility and what we ’ ve seen are people having had experiences within their home or social life enriched by technology and wanting to replicate that at work ,” says Gough . “ Also , there are new entrants to the industry . These are people who are much more comfortable with technology , see a lot of inefficiencies and feel empowered or able to change things . It ’ s coming from both sides . There ’ s real topdown and bottom-up momentum .”
Rise of the robots There may be other ramifications around the widespread roll out of technology too . On the one hand it will help address issues such as poor project management through to inadequate design processes , moving workers away from mundane tasks , but does it also mean that there ’ s a very real chance that jobs could be lost
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