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January 2022 #14270 Page #126
The Last Word on What’s Ahead Joe Kannapell, P.E.
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he best news for 2022 will be on the job front, and I plan on keeping mine, working these pages. Please stayed tuned as we uncover much more about our unique niche in the off-site construction industry, including developments on the following, evolving topics: • Robotics: How will the two new robotic assembly systems fare: one coming from the Carolinas and another going into Wisconsin? How will they compare with Auto-Eye by Randek, which first was marketed in the U.S. in 2014, and later installed at True House in Crescent City, Florida? And what’s new at the Blueprint Robotics plant which started up in 2016 on the Baltimore Harbor (see articles in February 2017, May 2017, and August 2021) and has recently restarted after a long hiatus? • Multi-Family Housing: Will Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) become an affordable alternative for apartment structures taller than 5 stories (see April 2021 and December 2021)? If so, will this lessen the number of five story wood trussed buildings? • Truss Design: How prevalent are “green roofs” and how do they impact truss design? • Truss Machinery: Next month, we’ll continue the march of linear saw innovations and competitive forces. • Truss Plates: Later in 2022, we’ll tackle how the evolution caused a near revolution in construction.
As backup for these stories, the following series are available: • Multi-Family developments (5 articles March 2018 to July 2018) • Fifty Years of Truss Design (16 articles August 2018 to November 2019) • Sixty Years of Machines o Roof Assembly (13 articles December 2019 to December 2020) o Cutting Equipment (13 articles January 2021 to present) Continued next page
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