The depth and breadth of value achieved is greater, the bigger and more complex the Chip.
One of the challenges we’re facing is that, on a very basic level, the construction industry has an issue with language.Terms lose their meaning, or are used to mean different things by different people, Marks says.
These days we use terms like ‘industrialised construction’ to refer to the overarching DfMA principle being used throughout the built environment.Marks has embraced industrialised construction as a term, however, but she acknowledges that some industry professionals, working in areas that aren’t directly related to construction, don’t always feel represented by it.. There’s also the term ‘Modern Methods of Construction’ (MMC), which Marks says she used to use but doesn’t anymore.These days she finds the meaning too ambiguous.
In 2005, she bought a 76-year-old company that built steel and concrete volumetric modular, as well as some assemblies.They worked on a huge variety of projects: telecommunications, data centres, schools, hospitals, generator enclosures, and embassies for the government.
Marks notes that people tend to think standardised design is something new, but it isn’t.
It’s just an idea that’s coming back, growing in scale, and becoming more mainstream.. Another issue we have in the construction industry, she explains, is that when we talk about this type of industrialised construction work, we tend to focus on the projects we consider to be the sexy, quirky ones.But this moment also gives you an opportunity to make small changes to the way your systems operate; to make meaningful improvements to the efficiency of systems, control your energy bills and limit the impact of increased ventilation on the environment.105 Sumner Street - designed for development by Landsec - will be the first major building completed using our Platform Design for Manufacture and Assembly (P-DfMA) approach from building design to delivery.. P-DfMA is a versatile and customisable construction system for commercial, residential and other building types.. P-DfMA consists of common parts, all made from readily available materials, which have been designed to go together in rehearsed ways.
Each part of the platform system has been designed to value based on its performance requirements..This standard kit of parts can be configured to offer a broad range of building products without limiting design ambition.
Design effort can be spent where it adds the most value – creating places where people want to live and work.. 105 Sumner Street consists of two new-build commercial office buildings, built around a publicly accessible internal courtyard, in total comprising c. 135,000 sq ft.It will be nine storeys high with reception and basement areas.
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