Smart Mobile Factories for Sustainable Infrastructure Construction
This workshop introduces the Smart Mobile Factory (SMF) as a new paradigm for decentralized, digitally driven infrastructure construction. Targeted at researchers and engineers, it explores how on-site production, real-time sensing, and digital twins can transform construction economics, reduce CO₂ emissions, and accelerate delivery. The workshop combines technical presentations with case studies from EuroTube, including SMF4Infra, DemoTube, and modular sleeper production. An interactive discussion and hands-on breakout session will guide participants through SMF system requirements, planning and deployment strategies, and the design of sensor and software architectures enabling digital-twin-based mobile factories.
Tutor
Lorenzo Benedetti (EuroTube Foundation, Dübendorf, Switzerland)
Lorenzo Benedetti is Head of Science and Technology of the EuroTube Foundation, where he oversees the development of the hyperloop system and the numerous research projects associated with that in the field of civil, mechanical and electrical engineering. He received the Ph.D. degree in Computational Mechanics and Structural Analysis from the Polytechnic University of Catalunya UPC (Barcelona, Spain) and the M.Sc. in Civil Engineering at Columbia University (New York, USA). In recent years he led the development of the Smart Mobile Factory, a novel modular and reconfigurable prefabrication site that can be repositioned along the infrastructure construction.