{"id":4000,"date":"2023-06-28T12:39:39","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T12:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationisrael.org.il\/en\/?post_type=report&p=3340"},"modified":"2023-08-15T10:26:01","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T10:26:01","slug":"constructing-a-green-future","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/innovationisrael.org.il\/en\/article\/constructing-a-green-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Constructing a Green Future"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Whatever you envision when you think about technology, it’s probably not pictures of building sites, construction workers, and dirty hands. But for some, these are the very places where real innovation is born. One such example is ‘Buildots<\/strong>‘ \u2013 the company founded by Roy Danon<\/strong>, Aviv Leibovici<\/strong>, and Yakir Sudry<\/strong>, graduates of IDF Talpiot and intelligence units, all with a background in physics and computer science. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Danon, the company’s CEO explains: “During our time in the defense establishment, the three of us learned how revolutionary technology can be created with limited resources. Already then, we felt the desire to influence a more traditional industry which technology people are hesitant to engage in \u2013 one with a lot of unresolved challenges and a range of opportunities for change and innovation. We quickly settled on the world of construction”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The three entrepreneurs invested 6 months for a full-time study of all aspects of the construction industry. They visited building sites, talked with laborers and supervisors in an attempt to understand the industry’s pressing problems, and searched for a specific problem they could solve. They eventually arrived at the biggest challenge that they believed could be solved via technology, formulated an idea, and progressed to developing the system:<\/p>\n\n\n\n “When you enter the construction industry, you understand relatively quickly that ultimately, it’s just a production process: repeated construction of one apartment after another, performing exactly the same procedures in all of them. The concepts we talk about in the world of industry, such as bottlenecks, quality control etc. are all very relevant in the construction sector. At any given stage on the building site, there are dozens and sometimes hundreds of workers, each of whom is dependent on the one before him in the process”, Danon explains. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The greatest difficulty is that in the building sector, unlike a factory, there is a definite lack of control. While a factory has a control room that enables the managers and workers to observe what is happening each day, this information is very difficult to obtain on a building site. It was this problem that the three entrepreneurs decided to solve i.e., to enable the managers on a building site to understand what’s happening on their site, both with regards to the project’s schedule and that of the plan versus actual execution. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Buildots system involves the managers wearing helmet cameras such as GoPro as they walk around the site. The algorithmics developed by the company, that are based on image processing and artificial intelligence, compare the observations from the site with the plans, thereby enabling an understanding of the building’s project status in relation to the plans \u2013 down to the level of the individual wall socket. After the data is analyzed, the project managers receive the processed results in a form that matches the way in which the building industry works, operates, and reports. <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n