• open dialogue.
‘Volumetric’ seems to be the first and most obvious starting point, but we believe there is a need for a wider and more sophisticated ecosystem of DfMA.There may be parallels with what happened with BIM.
The UK was the first to mandate Building Information Modelling and our standards became quite widely adopted, or were at least used as a starting point, globally.It will be interesting to see if construction Platform design has a similar global appeal, once people have understood the limitations of modular.. COVID-19: accelerating the shift to construction Platforms?.COVID-19 has simply accelerated this journey, or accentuated the need to move forwards at speed.
As a result, the UK government is now looking to double down on the current plan to develop construction Platforms and to make things happen even more quickly.This should send a strong message to the construction industry.
This shift is coming.
We've already seen other sectors - entertainment, retail, music - being disrupted over the last 25 years.At Bryden Wood, we say that we are powered by technology as a methodology, a way of thinking that unlocks new approaches to complexity.
Our Design to Value approach to master planning is an example of that.. Our Creative Technologies team has produced a number of digital configurators, including master planning tools for railways, roads and data centres.These configurators rely on comprehensive data sets, organised in such a way as to be codified and machine-readable.
The master planning approach described in this article can be seen as the data-gathering and organising part of digital master planning – the preparatory work which could lead, in this case, to a digital configurator for pharmaceutical facilities..While the data we gather in master planning involves large amounts of human activity and processes, the outputs are all digital to some degree, and the entire process is digital in character, seeking to extract and organise data, so that at a later stage we can establish and apply rigorous rules.
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