PMA® helps to develop new construction methods Digital fabrication technologies

From the research stage to practical architectural application, this is the first time that a large-scale architecture project has been implemented using ABB robots and PMA cable protection products.

As part of the DFAB HOUSE construction project, researchers at ETH Zurich are working together with experts and planning specialists from the building industry to research and test how digital fabrication can alter the design and construction process. ABB Robotics and ABB PMA® cable protection are both playing an important role in this new digital fabrication technology.  This new construction method has now left the research laboratory and has been realised in an architectural project in the form of the three-storey DFAB HOUSE assembled in Switzerland at Empa’s and Eawag’s NEST research building in Dübendorf.  This is the first time that a large-scale architecture project has been implemented using ABB robots and PMA cable protection products at the world’s only Robotic Fabrication Laboratory located at ETH Zurich and the NCCR Digital Fabrication facility.