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You’ll be joining a traditional industry – but one that’s also gearing up for the next decade.
Helping it to transform is the Construction Scotland Innovation Centre (CSIC), which last month began work on a new state-of-the-art facility at Hamilton International Technology Park.
When it opens its doors this summer, the CSIC will have workshop space for construction and manufacturing equipment, including a five-tonne overhead gantry crane. Here new skills will be taught using the latest virtual reality and drone technology, as well as advanced robotics.
This is where building work takes a leap into the future, adapting to new techniques that are set to make construction faster, more efficient and cleaner.
As well as space for training, events and seminars, the new facility will also act as an incubator where start-us and small business can collaborate with big industry, academic and public sector partners on innovation projects.
There’s no doubt the construction industry is changing and that should lead to exciting new opportunities if you work in this sector.
Stephen Good, CSIC chief executive, says the new facility will provide “a dynamic environment, away from the conventional building site, where the Scottish construction industry can innovate, take risks, explore and learn, safe in the knowledge that the activity here is protected from the perceived risks of innovating on live construction sites”.
Anything that’s going to make a real difference to how Scotland’s new homes, offices, schools and hospitals are built is, first, going to have to undergo rigorous testing and here, too, the CSIC can help.
Since it was launched two years ago it has already assisted 42 new projects to get off the ground.
Part of its remit is to help more processes take place offsite, where house components are built in factory conditions and not on cold, wet, muddy building sites – that has to be good news if you’re looking for a new role in construction without the misery of always being outdoors!
Other steps it will help with include concrete 3D printing, the manufacture of cross laminate panels using homegrown timber and the training of apprentices using virtual reality headsets.
In other words, bricks and mortar are becoming hi-tech and the new era of smart construction in Scotland is with us.
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