Bleutech Park Properties, a real-estate investment trust (REIT), and KME Architects have unveiled plans for a new "Digital Infrastructure City" in Las Vegas.
The digitally-focused, smart city-style development is set to feature "automated multi-functional designs," "supertrees," and self-healing concrete structures, according to a press release. The development, which will include offices and market-rate and affordable housing, will draw all of its energy from renewable sources. The buildings in the development are set to be wrapped with photovoltaic glass panels that will turn "entire building exteriors into single solar panels," according to a statement.
The project is also set to be constructed using union labor; Those workers will be aided by a bevy of automated and digital technologies, including aerial construction drones that will work on hard-to-reach and dangerous portions of the project and "wearable technologies" that will aid workers in heavy lifting and repetitive tasks.
"Bleutech believes in the rise of digitization and robotics in construction," Bleutech Park Properties chief technology innovation officer, Bertrand Dano, said in a statement, adding that the approaches will "increase productivity and efficiency."
Martin-Harris Construction and Cisco are partners on the $7.5 billion project, which is due to be completed in six years.
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And this is good why? Are the project's goals to NOT create jobs and increase the developers' profits? Well done!
The project will assuredly "increase productivity and efficiency." That is the motivation and goal -- and only public relations "spin" can fluff that up into a motivation to help workers deal with "dangerous portions of the project" and to "aid workers in heavy lifting and repetitive tasks."
How about something more like this:
There will be a bevy of automated and digital technologies, including aerial construction drones all of which will reduce lower-paying manual jobs on the project, causing economic tradeoffs where the wealthy developers become richer while there are fewer and fewer jobs for people who need those jobs to survive.
Is it Archinect's editorial policy to just print projects simply because they are NEW! IMPROVED! BIGGER! FASTER! and have more exciting technology regardless of their effect on people and the economy?
Maybe an article about how this developer is stepping up to support guaranteed minimum income programs nationwide because of their own role in reducing employment. Now that would be news.
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