Platform Design for better individual assets.
The Construction Innovation Hub’s work last year with the Defining the Need Report looked at the specific pipelines of infrastructure delivery (particularly social infrastructure), and analyzed what specification requirements were already in place, their maturity, and how much common ground existed..The level of significant overlap was surprising.
Over fifty percent of the estates were not unique in any way.And yet, the way these programs are being delivered is incredibly diverse, which simply doesn’t make economic sense.Identifying this reality and presenting it in such a clear and accessible way has garnered a lot of support from the government.
The opportunity is clear to see.Sully doesn’t believe there will be any person, from any industry, political party, or part of the government, who will object to having better quality buildings delivered at lower costs, and providing better overall value.
This is truly a better, faster, greener agenda.
We’re seeing a need to kickstart things as a result of COVID, but there’s also been a reset of some of the policy, and time to create policy, which is now coming to fruition..So there’s an unavoidable need to create high-quality and sustainable infrastructure for vast numbers of people, including housing, education, healthcare and transport.
At the same time, our environment demands change, with the building and construction industry contributing a staggering 39% of global carbon emissions.We must alter the way we design and build dramatically, both to keep pace with the needs of society and to prevent the acceleration of global warming.. At Bryden Wood, we are showing how this can be achieved through a process of industry collaboration and the adoption of modern methods of construction (MMC).
By MMC, we mean all forms of innovation in construction - physical forms like P-DfMA, as well as virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), robotics, data, automation, point cloud surveys, and so on… This is all in addition to the frequently used term ‘offsite’ which, in fact, only represents one aspect of MMC, or industrialized construction.We aren’t exclusively referring to the process of manufacturing large modules in factories and moving everything off construction sites.
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