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In terms of where the construction industry is heading in the near future, Professor Glass says that in addition to prioritising our climate change issues, she’d like to see an end to the use of Return on Capital Employed for all of the major contractors.
Our recent work in the UK with Landsec on a modular office building project has demonstrated the following advantages: the automation of processes leading to a 30-50% reduction in the numbers of people onsite, an increase in safety as a result of reduced work at height, lower capital costs with a 25% reduction in materials due to component optimisation, and a 13% improvement in speed.Already impressive, we expect these metrics will only continue to improve over time.. Design to Value.
The starting point, and where we must begin in order to truly maximise the benefits that P-DfMA and MMC make possible, is to rework our core processes (design, procure, construct, operate) around a central, driving principle: process-led design.In other words, we must begin with the manufacture and assembly process in mind.Innovation doesn’t respect discipline or sector boundaries.
It needs to sit across the entire operation.We are interested in increasing quality, productivity, timeliness and cost effectiveness.
So we have to ask certain key questions from the outset, like: what’s the least amount of material that could possibly be used to build an asset?
What’s the smallest number of times that asset could be touched or processed by people?In our minds, the brief is intrinsically linked to the construction strategy.
It is intrinsically linked to the overall feasibility of the building.. We are an integrated company, with multi-disciplinary teams working across all our projects from the earliest stages.We have a strong background in technology, engineering and construction.
The result of this is that we do not need to design to approximations and allowances – we can be precise from the outset.. Design from the inside out.Fundamental to our design approach is that we start from the client’s requirements, which we establish during a series of early workshops.