Totally Mechanized Construction System for High-Rise Buildings (T-UP System)

To totally mechanize construction work in building production, particularly through the introduction of robots, construction methods that can be carried out by machines must be developed. In developing new construction methods, the characteristics of construction machinery must be carefully considered, and new machines and materials must be developed. Mechanized construction is the most effective in the construction of building superstructures built of large and heavy materials. To maximize the efficiency of mechanized construction, a continuous cycle of transportation and assembly with each type of member must be used to build superstructures. Through repetitions of this cycle, it should be possible to build superstructures quickly and without interruption. To develop mechanized construction systems, the machine systems and material systems to be incorporated must be examined, and the configurations of the building components must be systematized and classified. This report describes the development of T-UP, a new method for robotization for the construction of superstructures built of large and heavy materials. It also describes some examples of how the T-UP System has been used in superstructure construction.