http://bit.ly/BWNewsUpdatesIntroduction – what is automation in construction?.

The first assets may be delivered quite traditionally, but sequential assets can be increasingly industrialised in their delivery:.Starting to engage key suppliers in the provision of standardised equipment to give certainty of pipeline to the supplier, and certainty of cost and availability to the client.

Prefabricating sections or ‘lower order Chips’ (the standardisation process means the lower order Chips are often designed in a way that means they can be prefabricated e.g.an MEP cassette).Culminating in the development or adoption of a platform solution to the reference design..

Learn more about.Industrialised ConstructionThe Benefits of Design to Value: To the Environment.

As society’s awareness of its impact on local ecosystems grows to a realisation of the global impacts of climate change and the continued and rapid destruction of habitats, diversity and the planet’s interdependent networks of life, Design to Value offers the opportunity to respond with purpose and adequacy.

Although the green agenda has been around for a couple of decades, the response has been piecemeal, discreet; some would say derisory.Collaborative because there is usually no one person who understands every element of the situation (we bring together the right people to combine their knowledge and experience).

Iterative because the problem is unwrapped and understood gradually, by identifying potential solutions, analysing them and feeding the outcome back into the continuously evolving problem statement.The team evaluates the outcome, revises their understanding of the problem (if required), and goes around the loop again, with new, adjusted or more developed solutions..

The key principles of our master planning approach are: to adopt a common language that can be understood by all involved; to use clear visualisations rather than words as much as possible, as this aids general understanding; to be clear and explicit about any and all assumptions, and; to capture as much data and information as possible from as many sources as possible, so that no knowledge goes to waste..The first step is to gather that information.