Using process engineering to deliver broader outcomes.
All this must be done with the lowest embedded carbon methods we can find, while also protecting and supporting the natural world to begin to thrive again..This is no simple task.
However, we know that the systematisation of methods, super-charged with developments in creative technologies, is a proven way to exponentially industrialise, as it has in the last 100 years.Approaches which modularise process plants and utilities move construction techniques into mass production techniques.Building platforms move us away from bespoke design and delivery into repeatable, lean methods of construction.
Approaches to standardisation and mass-customisation allow us to adapt solutions to the real world while protecting and massively improving productivity.These approaches are already being explored and applied across sectors.. We also know that we can achieve industrialisation within the context of a cherished natural world if we have the intent and the imagination..
So, curiosity led me to a degree of anxiety at the size of task which confronts us, while also giving me flickers of hope that we have done, and can do, extraordinary things.
We need that hope and the energy that curiosity brings to imagine and realise the solutions..We’re focusing on the least amount of material, the lowest carbon materials, the highest levels of productivity.
These are the driving principles of P-DfMA and industrialised construction more generally..Automation in construction.
In terms of maximising value, we must also address the reality that at present, the majority of an architect or designer’s time is spent documenting ideas, whereas in actuality, it is the creation of the idea in the first place which is the most value-adding element.One benefit of standardising components and adopting a P-DfMA approach is that we can document the rules around those components.