Robot Traces Floor Plans for Africa’s Tallest Skyscraper in Morocco

The construction project of the Mohammed VI Tower is progressing well. Besix is using the BIMPrinter robot to trace the floor plans of the infrastructure, reports Global construction review. This is a tracing robot designed and developed by a Belgian company of the same name, which traces on the ground with millimeter precision the smallest details of the digital plans. According to Besix’s surveyor, Mikolaj Zdebski, the technique allows them to produce a complete floor plan in less than a day, which is three times faster than traditional methods, allowing them to save a lot of time on the 55-story tower.

"The quality of the tracings is impressive for both straight and curved lines, and the "painted" layout very well reflects the future installations long before the start of the assembly work," he said in a press release. "It’s very useful for workers, subcontractors, but also for the architect and the client representatives!"

The Mohammed VI Tower is the emblematic building of the development plan for the Bouregreg Valley near Rabat designed by the architects Rafael de la Hoz and Hakim Benjelloun. It has a high environmental quality with LEED Gold and HQE certifications, a particularly fine aesthetic and a concentrate of innovations developed by BESIX’s Engineering Department. Started in 2018, the construction work on the infrastructure is scheduled to be completed in 2023.