Can we grow buildings? Concepts and requirements for automated nano- to meter-scale building

Advanced Engineering Informatics

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 390-398

  Rebolj, Danijel ^a   Fischer, Martin ^b   Endy, Drew ^c   Moore, Thomas ^d   Šorgo, Andrej ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated building; Biotechnology; Building information modeling; Nano to meter scale building; Nanorobotics; Nanotechnology

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED BUILDING; BUILDING INFORMATION MODEL - BIM; BUILDING INFORMATION MODELING; BUILDING PROCESS; BUILDING TECHNOLOGIES; CONTROL AND MONITORING; DESIGN METHOD; NANO- TO METER-SCALE BUILDING; NANO-MATERIALS; NANO-SILICA; RADICAL REDUCTION; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT;

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; AUTOMATION; BIOTECHNOLOGY; BUILDING MATERIALS; CARBON NANOTUBES; CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; EXTRACTION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INFORMATION THEORY; NANOROBOTICS;

BUILDINGS;

EID: 79954420468     PISSN: 14740346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aei.2010.08.006     Document Type: Article

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