D1.1 The HumanTech vision and research requirements

The HumanTech project comprises research on different technologies to obtain a digital twin of the construction site or existing buildings, and the application of wearable devices and advanced robots in construction. All HumanTech partners envision that the application of all these technologies will lead to an advance of construction towards a safer and greener construction industry. This document will describe this unified HumanTech vision. As the main challenges for the construction industry were identified: a growing demand in construction induced by a growing demand for energy efficient renovations, infrastructure investments and urbanisation, climate change, resource scarcity and a shortage of labour. The main research requirements are extending open BIM standards for data exchange and interoperability, methods to obtain Dynamic Semantic Digital Twins of construction sites and other assets, unobtrusive wearables with intelligent transparency, robotic interfaces and learning from demonstration, on- site safe human-robot-collaboration and workflow capturing with XR visualization. The impact of HumanTech is expected in the fields of worker’s health and safety and a transition towards green, climate-friendly, and resource-efficient construction by reducing errors, increasing accuracy and efficient robotic task automation.