Office to Lab: 12 conversion challenges & how to overcome them

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The contractor’s role becomes more profitable and sophisticated – what we refer to as a manufacturing assembly manager.We believe that going forward this role will put more effort into controlling logistics, supply chain etc… In fact, roles throughout the supply chain will change, becoming more efficient and more focused on driving value.. Meeting the needs of our clients.

Over the years, we’ve come to recognise a wide variety of client drivers, including cost, time, net present value, capital and funding decisions.For some clients, accuracy in delivery is the most important thing.For others, such as the UK’s busiest airport, Heathrow, the biggest benefit arises from having the fewest number of people on site and the fastest possible delivery.

What this means is that ultimately there are many different forms of P-DfMA which are appropriate.. With Platform construction (P-DfMA), we’ve attempted to take everything we’ve learned in our client work and embed it in a set of components that clients and the industry more generally can benefit from.We’re focusing on the least amount of material, the lowest carbon materials, the highest levels of productivity.

These are the driving principles of P-DfMA and industrialised construction more generally..

Automation in construction.Automatically knowing the provenance of a built asset allows us to get into a circular economy.

Equally, we could also take components from one asset, and then use them for a different asset type in another part of the world.This is very appealing, as reusing is even more sustainable than recycling..

However, it’s worth stating that this is a huge simplification; that the true meaning of ‘circular economy’ is phenomenally complex (especially when we’re considering a 60-year plus period – how well do we believe someone in 1960 would have predicted the market in 2020?)This is a topic in its own right that we’ll explore another time – but what we can say for now is that construction Platforms seem like a sensible way of facilitating this approach.. What are the challenges to widespread adoption of construction Platform design?.