Our recent work in the UK with Landsec on a modular office building project has demonstrated the following advantages: the automation of processes leading to a 30-50% reduction in the numbers of people onsite, an increase in safety as a result of reduced work at height, lower capital costs with a 25% reduction in materials due to component optimisation, and a 13% improvement in speed.
It is intrinsically linked to the overall feasibility of the building.. We are an integrated company, with multi-disciplinary teams working across all our projects from the earliest stages.We have a strong background in technology, engineering and construction.
The result of this is that we do not need to design to approximations and allowances – we can be precise from the outset.. Design from the inside out.Fundamental to our design approach is that we start from the client’s requirements, which we establish during a series of early workshops.Designing a complex project does not always evolve in a linear fashion, so to deliver a quality design solution we must identify in the early stages of the design the details (technical, organisational, etc.)
that have a big impact.Once we clarify the structure of the briefing information, we identify key stakeholders.. We conduct extensive engagement with clinical and non-clinical staff, as well as patients and visitors.
We examine the flows and resources of people through the building, in order to maximise efficiency at every opportunity.
We reduce avoidable travel by designing to adjacencies and linkages wherever they add value – while at the same time understanding the need to keep certain functions, or categories of user, very separate.It’s good that people talk about construction tech – that creates an environment broadly open to tech – but that’s not the same as being able to actually use it..
In our team, we only ever apply technology when it is appropriate to the problem at hand.We have never, for example, had to use a Machine Learning solution, because we’ve never had a problem that it’s been the right technology for..
Nor do we think that the future of robotics in construction is in building robots to do jobs that we, or they, shouldn’t be doing in the first place.Technology is not fairy dust that you sprinkle onto a problem to sort it out.
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