Grants and Contributions:
Title:
BIM-Integrated Multi-Robot Platform for Customized and Sustainable Offsite Construction Manufacturing.
Agreement Number:
1027990
Agreement Value:
$858,000.00
Agreement Date:
Mar 27, 2025 - Mar 31, 2028
Description:
This Project integrates Building Information Modeling (BIM) with robotics to revolutionize offsite construction, focusing on steel and mass-timber manufacturing. By leveraging advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), digital twins, and computer vision, it aims to enhance precision, efficiency, and sustainability in construction processes. Over three years, the Project will deliver key outcomes, including a report evaluating BIM-integrated multi-robot systems, an open-source Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DfMA) tool for optimizing quality and sustainability, and a framework for knowledge acquisition using ontologies to streamline data flow. Additionally, it will develop a simulation framework to improve robot coordination, reduce waste, and optimize resources in realtime manufacturing, as well as a cyber-physical multi-robot workstation combining BIM, digital twins, and Industrial Robots. These innovations will transform steel construction manufacturing, enabling intelligent automation, reducing errors and resource use, and advancing sustainable and efficient offsite construction practices.
Organization:
National Research Council Canada
Expected Results:
In the short term, anticipated outcomes will be strengthened collaborations across industry, academia, and government to support research excellence. In the medium term, anticipated outcomes will be the development of new and potentially disruptive technologies with collaborators. In the long term, find collaborative solutions to public policy challenges and create stronger innovation systems.
Location:
Edmonton, Alberta, CA T5J 4P6
Reference Number:
172-2024-2025-Q4-1027990
Agreement Type:
Grant
Report Type:
Grants and Contributions
Recipient Business Number:
108102831
Recipient Type:
Academia
Recipient's Legal Name:
The Governors of the University of Alberta
Federal Riding Name:
Edmonton Centre
Federal Riding Number:
48015
Program:
Collaborative Science, Technology and Innovation Program - Collaborative R&D Initiatives
Program Purpose:
Collaborate on multiparty research and development programs to catalyze transformative, high-risk, high-reward research with the potential for game-changing scientific discoveries and technological breakthroughs in priority areas.
NAICS Code:
541710