Offset: any remaining carbon should be offset via Power Purchase Agreements (PPA) or recognised carbon offset schemes.
She believes the heart of this may come from the fact that “data is the new oil, the new currency.”.It’s hard to get certainty around processes that change every single time, Marks says.
The construction industry needs to create some stability amongst the fluidity.We need to create a kind of man-made reef in the ocean to provide some information within all of that water.She believes productising construction will form exactly such a reef.. What is productisation in construction?.
The way things currently stand in the construction industry, every building we create is essentially a prototype.This means that our built assets are riddled with all the inefficiency of one-off designs and custom components.
But just as people no longer have their shoes tailor-made by a shoe maker, it’s time for the construction industry to embrace change and forge a new path toward progress.
As we stare down the barrel of a rapidly growing, global population and its associated infrastructure needs, alongside an aging construction workforce and a life-altering climate crisis, our current state of low productivity, non-transferable learnings, and high waste is no longer acceptable.. It’s these types of issues, and the associated risk, industrialised construction products and processes help to resolve.. Making the change with Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DfMA).In order to maximise success and boost product efficiency, while simultaneously driving benefits like improved quality, sustainability and substantial reductions in cost, the design and construction industry would benefit from understanding and embracing this core principle, which is so well embodied by the manufacturing sector..
The creation of our built environment is.a multi-dimensional and fluid matrix of dependencies and consequences.
No element can be viewed or managed in isolation..But over a number of decades, the process of delivering built assets has become fragmented.
(Editor: Compact Stands)