It’s great news that our project with Landsec and Easi-Space – the world’s first major commercial development designed and built using the Platforms approach to Design for Manufacture and Assembly (P-DfMA) – has been chosen and funded as one of the ‘.
This iteration is a part of ensuring the design is and remains integrated.Although different parties become engaged with design and delivery, it is the integration of the design which leads to the required outcomes.
There is little value in ten high-quality design packages if they do not interface and deliver efficiency in construction and effectiveness in operation.The integrated team need to be much more proactive and collaborative than design-coordination, which is a lagging process, detecting and correcting clashes.Instead we need a design integration approach which progressively and iteratively develops the design philosophy that will deliver the value in construction and operations..
All the parties involved in the IPD need to share in the value of the project.The core project management KPI’s are scope, cost and time however purely focusing on these has two fundamental contra-indications.
Firstly, they provide a limit to the value which can be delivered to the client: - as long as we get,.
, close to the time, cost and scope we have done a good enough job.This is not a complete design solution but can quickly generate a working feasibility model so clients can make highly informed decisions in days or weeks and at a fraction of the cost of a non ‘reference design’ approach.
Clients can even take a virtual tour to aid their insight, feedback and input.The design and procurement stages that follow can then also be compressed through focusing time and effort only on the bespoke elements of the largely standardised design.
This approach has been enormously powerful for our clients: the ability to rapidly assess the viability of sites has saved months of uncertainty and prevented the inefficiency of wasted work.. Configuring Reference Design.The rule and data-led thinking that defines Chips and how they can fit together in a design e.g.
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