The contractor’s role becomes more profitable and sophisticated – what we refer to as a manufacturing assembly manager.
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http://bit.ly/BWNewsUpdatesWe’ve talked extensively about the benefits a Platforms approach to Design for Manufacture and Assembly (P-DfMA) can bring to a construction project.Transforming Infrastructure Performance: Roadmap to 2030. , published in September 2021, the IPA has announced that the Government will mandate a platforms approach within two years for social infrastructure..The benefits of the platforms approach include cost savings, increased safety on-site, better quality, and more sustainable buildings.
So, what does a plausible future look like in practice, if the government and private sector adopt this way of working?A good illustration of this can be achieved by looking at the lifecycle of a construction project from design to assembly.
We can then explore what is technically achievable with construction Platforms, as well as what this looks like in a near-future state.
All of the technologies and initiatives we’ll outline here are underpinned by, or based around, the idea of using standardised, repeatable components.A red dotted line in the graphs below identifies the potential additional embodied carbon reduction from materials due to the decarbonisation of the grid.
The quantum of the reduction from the decarbonisation of materials would be highly dependent on where they are produced and the characteristics of the grid in those countries..The 60-year projection charts clearly show that the new construction option would have a much higher impact on the first year of use, due to the embodied carbon of construction using new materials.
Even though the new construction option benefits from a better operational carbon from day one, the decarbonisation of the grid ‘flattens’ the operational carbon emissions in the.retrofit options, dampening the difference with a new build..