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Discover the pioneering use of a platforms approach to Design for Manufacture and Assembly (P-DfMA) and how it contributed to a remarkable reduction in whole-life carbon emissions..

Marks calls them ‘serial owners,’ because they are large-scale, repeat asset builders.It’s when those big owners start making demands that the shifts occur.

She refers to big-budget school programmes as an example and talks about their need for operational consistency, usually over large geos.However, she cautions that after owners demand the change, it’s important they’re involved in allowing people to change the process to decrease risk and make things possible.. Jaimie Johnston points out that people often want innovation, but they want it to be tried and tested, without extra risk.They want a sophisticated way of delivering, but through an existing framework, an existing set of contracts, an existing set of contractual terms.. “No one doubts that you can deliver an asset using some of these technologies, he says, “but it's the framework of procurement methodology and contracts, and IP, and warranties and insurances - all those other things that need to change.”.

“What I'm finding now,” says Amy Marks, “is that they love industrialised construction, they want to understand certainty, so they're starting to dictate and decouple the process of construction and productising it.”.We need to connect makers and designers, she says.

We need to look across everything we’ve built and find the consistencies.

We can’t do it by hand, we need to use algorithms and machine learning.Automation in construction.

There are many elements of built assets that are, or could be, automated or standardised across multiple processes in one or more sectors and industries.The benefits of standardisation are visible every day in the manufacturing industry, at global scale.

We bring them to construction, in our.Platforms approach to Design for Manufacture and Assembly (P-DfMA).