Robots were originally introduced in the production of industrialized building components and modular housing. Later mobile robots were developed for special on-site construction tasks. Automated construction sites use robotics for logistics and assembly. The technological progress of robotics allows recently the automated production of facades, which is described in this keynote.

The modelling of consequences to built infrastructure when subject to blast loading is well developed; however, there is considerable uncertainty and variability with explosive loading and system response; which provides many challenges for collateral damage estimation. In this paper, structural facades are assessed – with a focus on glazing – as this is a structural and load-capacity system th...

Scene interpretation systems are often conceived as extensions of low-level image analysis with bottom-up processing for high-level interpretations. In this contribution we show how a generic high-level interpretation system can generate hypotheses and initiate feedback in terms of top-down controlled low-level image analysis. Experimental results are reported about the recognition of structure...

We report here the draft genome sequence of Tolypothrix campylonemoides VB511288, isolated from building facades in Santiniketan, India. The members of this genus produce several compounds of commercial importance. The draft assembly is 10,627,177 bases in 135 scaffolds, and it contains 7,886 protein-coding genes, 994 pseudogenes, 18 rRNA genes, and 76 tRNA genes.

There is an increasing interest of the scientific community in the generation of 3D facade models from terrestrial laser scanner (TLS) data. The segmentation of building facades is one of the essential tasks to be carried out in a 3D modelling process. Since in reality, majority of facade components are planar, the detection and segmentation of geometric elements like planes respond to the prev...