Is Dry Construction the Next Big Thing?
Robert Mathews, Construction Business Review
Construction Business Review | Wednesday, July 29, 2020
Dry construction is making notable strides in the construction and technology landscape.
FREMONT, CA: Technology has been bringing a rapid shift in the paradigm of construction. Builders of today are not limiting themselves to traditional methodologies anymore. With the world moving towards becoming smarter, construction technologists are exploring novel techniques and ideas that reap unimaginable outcomes and hike productivity. Dry construction is one of those untapped faces of the intelligent and high-tech construction industry.
Why is dry construction emerging as the most loved, most used, and most talked about technology? Dry construction involves the use of prefabricated building components. Prefabrication makes the task of construction much easier for the construction professionals as the components are ready to initiate the core procedure. They can be simply laid on the site where the building is erected, and the builders are done. Legacy building processes, which consume a lot of time, labor, and energy, can now be replaced instantly with the method of dry construction.
Dry construction techniques make the process of erecting the building ultra fast and seamless. The reason behind this the fact that dry construction encourages the use of processed building materials. Such materials do not need the builders to fabricate them and wait for days together for them to dry and become ready for the further steps involved in construction. Alongside, since the process of constructing a building is condensed to merely assembling the prefabricated components on the site, dry constructions reduce the labor needed to complete the project. This, in turn, reduces the cost involved in paying an increased number of workers.
Dry construction also helps in overcoming the challenges raised by the natural calamities and other environmental adversities. As the name suggests, the method is dry, and therefore rains and cyclones don’t harm the components and delay the process of building. In this way, dry construction is increasingly gaining traction.
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