Construction 4.0: The LifeCycle Tower and Digitalised Timber Construction

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to rethink the world of construction anew and to transfer it to the future with modern methods and technologies. To this end, we present the LifeCycle Tower (LCT)-construction system that was developed at the end of 2010 as part of a multi-annual, cooperative and interdisciplinary research proj- ect lasting over several years. It combines two problem solving approaches that sig- nificantly contribute to a CO2 -neutral building sector: the utilisation of wood as a building material and the regional realisable modular construction system. Additionally, a comprehensive energy supply concept was developed that helps to reduce energy demand to a minimum and is at the same time in tune with the needs of the users. Rhomberg is also changing the development and planning process with his disruptive approach: Turning and anchor point of the new building will be an interdis- ciplinary, digital, living platform – a kind of cybernetic table for everything involving the topics “planning, erecting and operation” of buildings. With these developments, construction, as we know it, is completely modified and turned on its head.