Prince George builder Winton Global Homes & Cottages looks for ways to automate to make up for anticipated labour shortages
Over the next 10 years it’s expected the city of Prince George will need new housing for 10,000 residents.
But there’s at least one roadblock in that pathway to prosperity that Doug Rooke is well aware of. During that 10-year period it’s anticipated that 41 per cent of the construction workforce will reach the age of retirement. Not enough young workers are entering the industry to replace them and that’s a problem.
“So how do we do it differently? Certainly upskilling jobs to control automated pieces of equipment will be the jobs of the future for construction.” “That technology piece is the pathway to higher productivity and better specification and more repeatability in terms of design and learning,” said Rooke. “It forces quality upstream in the supply chain and you have to solve a lot of the problems up front in order for the equipment to work well, instead of finding out at site, which is costly and causes a lot of delays.
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