Projects

The Construction Robotics Center continuously works on projects in which we support and advise our members on their way to digital and automatic construction. Potential areas of application are constantly growing and changing as the construction industry moves towards digitalization and automation. The topics and roadmap of the Construction Robotics Center are therefore continuously developed by the consortium of registered members.

We are currently working on the following projects with our partners from industry, science and politics.

Sovereign projects

Internet of Construction (IoC)

“IoC – Information networks for cross-company collaboration in construction manufacturing chains”

Projectstart 02.07.2019
funded by Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)

Construction processes and construction machinery

“Pilot project for a research and training centre for construction processes and construction machinery at the Rhenish Revier.”

Projectstart: 01.08.2020
funded by Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi)

5G. Namico

5G. Namico – Network Adaptive Mining & Construction

01.01.2022 – 31.12.23
funded by the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Innovation, Digitalisation and Energy (NRW)

Enable Sanierung

Enable Sanierung

01.11.2021 – 01.03.2024
Funded by the state of NRW with the funding programme “Digitalisation of the construction industry and innovative building”.

TARGET X

TARGET X – Trial Platform for 5G Evolution – Cross-Industry on large scale

01.01.2023 – 30.06.25
A project funded by the Smart Networks and Services Joint Undertaking (SNS JU) under Horizon Europe.

EConoM

EconoM – Edge, AI and 5G campus networks in nomadic application for construction site management

01.01.2023 – 31.12.24
funded by the Federal Ministry for Digital Affairs and Transport through the InnoNT programme

Projects of the CCR

Consortial Project “Assembling & Handling Tasks – Analysis, simulation & field testing”

Consortial Project “CRAHOI”

Consortial Project “CRAHOI BT”

References

The first Construction Robotics Center project was published in January 2019 and is a study on “Industry 4.0 in the cement industry – status quo and prospects” for the German cement industry. The study was commissioned by the Social Policy Working Group of the German Cement Industry, (Sozialpolitische Arbeitsgemeinschaft der deutschen Zementindustrie (SPADZ) gemeinsam mit der Industriegewerkschaft Bauen–Agrar–Umwelt (IG BAU), der Industriegewerkschaft Bergbau, Chemie, Energie (IG BCE) sowie dem Verein Deutscher Zementwerke (VDZ)).

The study was carried out by an interdisciplinary team of RWTH scientists from the Chair for Individualized Production for Architecture, the WZL Machine Tool Laboratory, represented by the Chair of Production Metrology and Quality Management and the Institute of Building Materials Research, represented by the Chair of Building Materials Science.

For details of the study, please refer to the press release under News or the VDZ homepage.

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