In time, this market will help to further reduce material costs..
MMC won’t need to be enforced, developers will come on board willingly because MMC will provide much quicker outcomes, with much greater levels of certainty.Ultimately, when we make MMC and design for precision manufacturing the default option, we’ll be able to make better homes for people.. At Bryden Wood we’re currently working on the New Hospitals Programme, which is the first real enactment of the Construction Playbook.
Within the lifetime of that programme, we hope to have fundamentally changed the way physical building is done, the way we use MMC, and the way we deliver assets.Such a success would pave the way for P-DfMA and other MMC methodologies to be rolled out across other social infrastructure, including schools, social housing and more.We envision that there is likely to be about a ten-year window of opportunity here, and the industry needs to make a start.
It also seems likely that within the grand scheme of things on the horizon, the digital work will take longer than the physical aspects, and we should be conscious of that.. Miranda Sharp reminds us that digitising planning and the wider built environment won’t be easy to do.Some of the necessary work will be boring, and it will be a grind to make the data interoperable and set the transaction mechanisms.
Aligning standards, cleaning up data and creating transformation will all take a long time.
The industry wants a silver bullet, it wants to skip to the end, but there’s some fairly heavy lifting to be done first.The purpose is to examine how we begin to design for automation, as well as to determine what level of automation is appropriate on-site.
We’ve also been exploring automation in construction at component level.This is done via our work with Landsec and Easi Space at our Construction Platforms Research Centre in Ropley.
This would include approaches like laser cutting components, and the use of autonomous reach stackers to place components.. As we move forward with automation in construction, we won’t need as many people on site.The operatives who are there will be working much more safely, with greater productivity.
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