Ensuring wildlife safety in the construction process

As part of construction projects, such as energy-efficiency renovations of existing buildings, various official requirements from authorities must be met. In particular, there are strict requirements for wildlife protection to avoid further harming the population of endangered animal species in urban areas.

The Berlin TXL site, furthermore, has a high density of listed buildings that need to be preserved, which adds further complexity to the process.

Necessary preliminary inspections of the buildings, especially the facades, are often manual and labor-intensive, which results in high costs and time expenditure. In addition, derived measures are often based on insufficient data, which is collected by random sampling and can lead to ineffective decisions. This can contribute to important aspects of wildlife and environment protection not being sufficiently taken into account, which can have a detrimental effect on the local fauna.

Modern technologies such as robotics and advanced sensors could be used to automate and improve the accuracy of preliminary building surveys. This would enable well-founded and optimized decisions that take into account monument preservation as well as wildlife and environment protection. At the same time, automated data collection leads to greater efficiency in the planning and construction process, which in turn results in potential cost savings in the long-term.