This unlocks vast potential in terms of manufacturing a better quality of building - structures which are more air- and weather-tight, energy efficient and overall better performing.
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?
How productive can those people be?.Our goal with P-DfMA is lean construction.We want to remove anything which doesn’t add value.
To achieve the best possible results, we must change the way we think, the way we manage materials and people.Design must form the entry point, with that particular element of P-DfMA serving as the foundation and pervading principle for everything which follows.
We must allow the manufacture and assembly process to drive the way we design the asset in the first place, as well as the way we engage the client and the supply chain..
Integrated design.Government is also uniquely positioned to take on the challenge of implementing a new, industrialised construction approach, as they have the resources required for in-depth research and development.
Still, with an undertaking as large as transforming construction, collaboration with industry will be crucial to success..The good news is that we’ve already seen this happening more recently, in terms of developing policy responses to the pandemic.
Whereas, previously, the government has simply implemented policies, we’re now seeing a more collaborative approach, in the form of The Construction Playbook and Industrial Strategy.The government is now actively working with industry to make sure new policies can be implemented.
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