Accounting for as high as 90% of prescription drugs, their strategies and business decisions have huge influence on the impact of the sector.
From creating inclusive pathways for aspiring architects to redefining how we approach design and collaboration, Satwinder’s insights inspire us to envision a more accessible and impactful future for the built environment..Learn more about how we support personal and professional development at Bryden Wood.For pretty much forever, on-site or in-situ construction has been the default way of building.
However with accelerating interest in Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DfMA) and Modern Methods of Construction (MMC), it sometimes seems that on-site construction is falling out of favour..In 2019, the UK’s Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) – as it was then called – published an MMC Definition Framework (see my earlier article,.What does DfMA stand for?).
This framework proposes Pre-Manufactured Value (PMV) as a metric for assessing the scale of MMC adoption on a project.PMV is calculated as the percentage of cost that is derived before any site works and strongly encourages maximising the proportion of off-site works.. As a result, many parts of the construction industry are focusing more and more on off-site prefabrication in pursuit of benefits including lower cost, reduced delivery timescales, higher quality, improved health and safety, less waste and more productive site labour..
But is off-site always the best way to achieve these benefits?
Construction sites have been around since the dawn of civilisation.The developer needs decisions as early as possible to design, secure power, step through regulatory hurdles and source long-lead components; while the customers want to be able to wait as long as possible to read the market.
Maintaining optionality, speed and cost effectiveness is a problem requiring new solutions.. On top of these challenges there are further known unknowns in the picture: the impact of the move from training AI to the distribution of AI Quantum computing..The power problem.
This situation is unlikely to change.DCs and the wider data infrastructure are increasingly being seen as critical national infrastructure, alongside energy, telecommunications, water and waste systems..
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