This means that contractors need to get on board as well.
So how can a Reference Design both standardise a design, yet leave enough flexibility to adapt it to any given brief?.Designing flexible Reference Designs.
In Reference Design, we create a core design of the most common of our clients’ facility type using a process of rationalisation, optimisation and standardisation.At the same time, we attach a planned strategy for increasing or decreasing scale and content and how to flex to suit local conditions e.g.scale up or down to hit a particular brief.
rearrange or reconfigure to suit site constraints and layout.choose between a ‘seismic’ or ‘non-seismic’ version.
choose between key suppliers for major equipment or specific materials required by fire codes etc.. We achieve this level of flexibility by thinking about the asset and the design in terms of ‘Chips’.
To create Chips, we break your assets, and the processes within them, down into the smallest, meaningful sets of interacting or interdependent components.Using IoT in this way also creates a differentiating, reputational advantage for contractors, as these companies are seen to be running very tight, lean, safe and productive operations.
This could ultimately enable such contractors to win more business, forcing other players to adopt these types of beneficial practices in order to keep up..Improving the future of construction.
Speculating about where industry progress may lead us across the next decade, Lamont predicts that the industry will gradually come to the realisation that the technology platform itself is not the solution to construction’s problems.In fact, he thinks that by simply shifting focus to the question of why we’re doing what we’re doing, we could see substantial growth in the.
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