Good news for Carlow as well. God knows the town could do with some good news on the manufacturing jobs site of things.I see Glenveigh have bought the former Braun site in Carlow with plans to set up timber frame manufacturing. Perhaps a step in the right direction.
Interesting but this;Why did agriculture mechanize and not construction?
Why did agriculture mechanize and not construction?
On her YouTube channel, Belinda Carr poses an interesting question: why did agriculture mechanize (ie: replace manual labor with machine labor), but not construction? Construction is often contrasted with factory-based production, but in many ways agriculture is a better comparison. Both...constructionphysics.substack.com
has been happening in Manufacturing for years. Where I work we use robot arms (co-bots or collaborative robots) to load and unload machines. Those machines can shift for manufacturing one complex part to another in about 30 minutes. In other words that technology's in place in Irish SME's so there's no reason it shouldn't be in place in larger factories building homes.Nonrepetitive movements are fundamentally an information problem - they require some method of telling a machine the state of the surrounding environment, and what to do depending on what that state is.
As software gets better and better, and as technologies like computer vision continue to improve, our ability to solve these information problems increases. Technologies like CNC milling, 3D printing, laser/plasma cutting, and even some steel sheet folding are already capable of quickly and cheaply fabricating different parts, one right after the other.
I really wonder should the State not investigate a Sale-and-Leaseback arrangement? Provide a site and tender out the build to developers. The State would lease the houses for say 60 years at an agreed rent. No upfront risk / borrowing for the government. Fixed income for the developer thereby making finance from a bank much easier. Less risk of the taxpayer getting fleeced too -> the developer would take that risk. You can be sure the houses would be built quickly.We have some excellent construction companies and some great technical universities who would have the skills to develop this industry.
But the venture would require a guaranteed demand for many years to justify the initial expenditure e.g. The government buying 5,000 houses a year for ten years.
Brendan
Isn't that what's happening with the buy to let's at the moment?I really wonder should the State not investigate a Sale-and-Leaseback arrangement? Provide a site and tender out the build to developers. The State would lease the houses for say 60 years at an agreed rent. No upfront risk / borrowing for the government. Fixed income for the developer thereby making finance from a bank much easier. Less risk of the taxpayer getting fleeced too -> the developer would take that risk. You can be sure the houses would be built quickly.
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