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new updated edition of Platforms book available to download here. )and we have continued to expand on and optimise Platforms and other MMC methodologies in our work with both public and private sector clients.
We’ve never sought to patent our work and we have open sourced the code for both of our construction design apps - SEISMIC and PRISM.Our goal is to bring about maximum benefit for the wider industry and society.We encourage our clients to join us on this journey by allowing others to benefit from the knowledge and systems we create for each project.
This creates a kind of reinforcing circle across the public and private sectors.By working together, we believe the industry can apply these transformative, design to value processes at scale and thereby deliver enormous benefit for the world..
In fact, we’re already seeing a wide range of benefits from the adoption of Platforms (P-DfMA) and our wider approach using modern methods of construction.
Our recent work in the UK with Landsec on a modular office building project has demonstrated the following advantages: the automation of processes leading to a 30-50% reduction in the numbers of people onsite, an increase in safety as a result of reduced work at height, lower capital costs with a 25% reduction in materials due to component optimisation, and a 13% improvement in speed.Designing a complex project does not always evolve in a linear fashion, so to deliver a quality design solution we must identify in the early stages of the design the details (technical, organisational, etc.)
that have a big impact.Once we clarify the structure of the briefing information, we identify key stakeholders.. We conduct extensive engagement with clinical and non-clinical staff, as well as patients and visitors.
We examine the flows and resources of people through the building, in order to maximise efficiency at every opportunity.We reduce avoidable travel by designing to adjacencies and linkages wherever they add value – while at the same time understanding the need to keep certain functions, or categories of user, very separate.
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