Digital learning

A recent plant tour of our editorial office ended with a look into a modern showroom. Through virtual reality goggles, the editors were able to look at the finished product of the plant, a comfortable single-family home erected with precast elements. Before that, the tour through actual production had presented a quite different picture, the familiar one: production lines made of steel, the workers in-between in their garb as they lifted up the magnets for positioning the formwork, or as they hunched down on the form table, manually placing the embedded parts. The contrast between the two...

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