262 CONFERENCE 6.—8.9.2017 TU-BERLIN 262 WHY WE WILL ALL BE LOOKING FOR A NEW JOB SOON, TRUE STORY BASED ON STUDY CASE OF ORKDAL FOOTBRIDGE Marcin LUCZKOWSKI PhD candidate Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim Marcin.luczkowski@ntnu.no Steinar Hillersøy DYVIK PhD candidate Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim steinar.dyvik@ntnu.no John Haddal MORK PhD candidate Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim john.h.mork@ntnu.no Nils Erik Anders RØNNQUIST Professor Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim anders.ronnquist@ntnu.no Summary The fourth industrial revolution, already present in the several industries, is now entering the field of civil engineering. Digital fabrication, mass customization, robot arms and drones are connected within the building information modeling (BIM) systems. All the work that is currently accomplished by nonprofessional or semi-professional workers can now be automated or delegated to robots. The main motivation behind this shift is economical: lowering the overall cost by increasing project time predictability and enhancing work security at the same time. The proper use of computers and machines helps avoiding random errors that are cumbersome to detect and thus slower the process of the project. For example: Using computer numerical control (CNC) sawing machines significantly increases the quality and accuracy of the timber elements that are sent to a construction side. Using pneumatic nail pistols or numerical welding machines speed up the joining process. Everything what happens since now was focused mostly on eliminating human factor from construction site. The most dramatic mistakes in civil engineering are prevalently made in the design phase of construction process. One can risk the thesis that knowledge available to the designer, i.e. the finite element method, scripting tools, Eurocodes, parametric modelling, and power computing machines could all be smartly merged together to eliminate the source of random errors from the design phase. In other words, we dare to propose an automated designing process concept with a limited interference of the designer. This is naturally followed by the new role of the designer, that to both qualitative and quantitative change. Keywords: structural concepts; conceptual design; digital workflow; digital fabrication 1. Introduction – is engineering fixed? The new design methodology proposal is based on the digital platform that is created by the participants of the designing process at the very beginning. In our case, the Grasshopper (Rhino plugin) software has been utilized and serves as the environment connecting all data about the project. The core of the platform is a parametric model linked to the finite element solver (Karamba plugin). The core can be supplemented with many components (small programs scripted in c# or python by the users) can be added. Adjustability of the software to individual needs creates possibilities and decreases the need of interference of the designer in the development of the project at further stages. This happens, because of the atomization of such DOI: 10.24904/footbridge2017.09702