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When design and planning happen more quickly, people will want to see construction happen faster too.MMC won’t need to be enforced, developers will come on board willingly because MMC will provide much quicker outcomes, with much greater levels of certainty.
Ultimately, when we make MMC and design for precision manufacturing the default option, we’ll be able to make better homes for people.. At Bryden Wood we’re currently working on the New Hospitals Programme, which is the first real enactment of the Construction Playbook.Within the lifetime of that programme, we hope to have fundamentally changed the way physical building is done, the way we use MMC, and the way we deliver assets.Such a success would pave the way for P-DfMA and other MMC methodologies to be rolled out across other social infrastructure, including schools, social housing and more.
We envision that there is likely to be about a ten-year window of opportunity here, and the industry needs to make a start.It also seems likely that within the grand scheme of things on the horizon, the digital work will take longer than the physical aspects, and we should be conscious of that.. Miranda Sharp reminds us that digitising planning and the wider built environment won’t be easy to do.
Some of the necessary work will be boring, and it will be a grind to make the data interoperable and set the transaction mechanisms.
Aligning standards, cleaning up data and creating transformation will all take a long time.Ultimately, we believe you will be able to get a price instantly from a vast, distributed network of small suppliers, as you develop your construction Platform model.
These suppliers will also be publishing details of their pipelines and capabilities, enabling you to plan your project precisely.Moreover, as all of these standardised components will be inexpensive, we don’t believe we’ll be costing solely on pure, capital costs.
There will also be a focus on other factors: the carbon footprint of the individual manufacturer, what they spend on R&D, staff welfare, and so on.Consequently, we will be looking for added value from our manufacturers, and this will change how we think about the procurement process going forwards..