For some in the construction industry, automation has become synonymous with job-killing robots. But construction automation isn’t only about cool tech like BIM models being used to direct brick-laying robots, site-surveying drones, and autonomous data-gathering bulldozers.
For the record, the market for construction robots is growing and was about $60 million last year. With more than 10 million construction employees in the U.S., automation can also refer to takeoff and estimating software, BIM, and that tablet in your hand.