It was noted that there are streams of scientific development in AI models which can help predict the production of harmful impurities and detect these impurities cheaply at parts per billion and parts per trillion levels.
If we truly aim to create a better future for construction, we must first recognise that implementing a new way of working will require a process of continual learning and progress.We need to be documenting, capturing, sharing and improving our processes, not just finishing a project with relief and moving to the next one.
Approaching our processes from a mindset of constant questioning and exploration, with a goal of deeper understanding, is what really gets people thinking and seeing things differently.This is how we’ll create real change.. Kit-of-parts and the Value Toolkit.When the Construction Innovation Hub began, the intention was for a project management strategy focused on iteration and development.
The goal was to develop a kit-of-parts approach that could be implemented with manufacturing processes, assembled in standardised ways, in standardised environments.That still exists, but the Hub is now aware of the need to look at other and bigger elements as well, such as information management..
The Construction Innovation Hub is interested in how we can use data more effectively, and how it can be interoperable, reused in different ways by different parties, and throughout the life of an asset.
The Hub will continue to explore how to develop platform construction (P-DfMA), and how people can benefit from it, with an aim of developing guides and rule books, but it’s also now looking beyond modern methods of construction (whether you call that platform construction, offsite, or DfMA), at traditional construction as well.We can do things like automate routing of certain utilities, based on the properties of the Chips.
And that enables us to try lots of different options in a short amount of time.As mentioned, this is a key element of our Design to Value approach, as it enables us to get closer to an optimum solution..
Unfortunately, we sometimes find ourselves in the conventional engineering situation of having to limit the number of options that we look at because we haven't got the time or the resources to look at too many.Clearly, it is fine to narrow down a set of options on a rational basis.
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