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The Need

The Construction Industry is experiencing a surge in demand and construction companies are under pressure from the UK Construction Leadership Council (CLC) to improve safety, well-being and productivity while reducing timelines, costs, and carbon.

The 2025 Health and Safety Executive (HSE) show:

• 41,000 construction workers suffer from a work-related musculoskeletal disorder

• 5,000 workers reported suffering from work-related breathing or lung problems

• 1.2 million workdays are lost per year

• 1 fatality per week onsite

Alongside this, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) reported poor workmanship and inconsistencies in Quality Inspections in 2024.

Dull, Dangerous, Dirty, and Physically Demanding (3D + P)

The Blockers

With ageing construction demographics and the fact that many young people do not want the perceived Dull, Dirty, Dangerous, and Physically Demanding ('3D + P') construction jobs, their are simply not enough workforce available to keep up with demand.

25% of the current workforce is over 55 years old (CSJ 2025) and with these people exiting the industry, their skills, knowledge, and mentorship to the next generation are lost.

Over 5,000 new workers are needed per year (CITB 2025) and this is 3 times the current graduate levels.

We're headed into a seismic labour crisis

• Costs rise by an unsustainable 5% per year

• Inefficiencies in manual human operations equate to 35% Wasted Tool Time

• Net Zero transition delays causing economic and environmental impacts

• Housing and Infrastructure needs struggle to be met

• UK PLC's growth stagnates

The Opportunity

These challenges can't be solved with intelligent, modular, off-site technologies alone.

IBE Humanoids believe that a synergistic collaboration between construction operatives and autonomous physical AI robots will be an inevitable part of the construction industry's innovative future.

Why Humanoids?

Our build environment is optimised for the human body. Therefore, a general purpose robot should be based on the human body and its motion mechanics. Humanoid robots can be thought of as plug-and-play Workforce Multipliers, joining the team without the need to redesign a floor layout. They can open doors, climb stairs, and work at the same stations as human employees. This flexibility means they can be multi-functional platforms that continuously learn and improve, switching between tasks and environments without being rebuilt/reprogrammed from scratch.

Our vision is for our fleet of humanoid robots to allow workers to complete tasks in a safe and efficient manner, focusing on high skill tasks and utilising the technology to conduct more with less.