Standardisation makes future maintenance easier.
We also believe there will be a shift in where we think creativity is best placed within the architectural process.Our Creative Technologies team - the vast majority of whom are architects - know that developing the algorithm and computational design is as much a part of the creative design process as sketching something.. M for Manufacture in DfMA: The move to a manufacturing mindset.
We have already seen our PRiSM to Platforms digital workflow deliver tremendous improvements to the procurement and payment process.As soon as we have a design we like, we can instantly generate a data model.This information gives us all the bill of materials quantities we’ll need for the project, and from this data set we can also create the BIM models (ie.
the BIM model is one ‘view’ of the data set, not the other way round).What’s more, as we move further into a construction Platforms space, we will increasingly see the data set of a design able to talk directly to the manufacturing marketplace.
This means we’ll be able to access instantly both the cost and availability of a project’s components.
For example, Xometry, a company in the United States, is already being used by major manufacturers.This is our unique moment of opportunity to shape the future of construction and positively impact our built environment for years to come, garnering government support and avoiding massive problems ahead.
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http://bit.ly/BWNewsUpdatesDespite its vast size, the construction industry is well known to be one of the least digitalised sectors in the world.While there are pockets of the ecosystem pushing technology in areas like DfMA, Kanban and Just-in-Time (JIT) systems, the majority of construction remains relatively undigitalised.