At GSK, I found myself working on a pharmaceutical project in Parma.

Instead, we could save on project costs and schedules if everyone optimised around the same thing, started defining the information behind standardisation and supply chains, and began thinking of projects more like products.. 5.Only by dispelling the mystique of construction, can we reveal real value..

The construction industry needs to shift its thinking towards recognising similarity and repeatability by using repeatable components to create unique systems.. Construction companies are already operating at 100% capacity or more.Businesses aren’t competing for work, they’re trying to figure out ways to deliver all the work they already have, and how to deliver it with existing supply chain capacity and widespread skills shortage..This reality creates an openness to new approaches and will force change, but we need interoperability of data, collaboration, and repeatability to make it happen.. Our need to build will only increase as the global population continues to grow, and the amount of energy and technology infrastructure required expands as we head into the future.

The best incentive for industry-level change will come from owners, who are starting to understand the enormous financial costs of delays and disrupted schedules more than ever before.And when owners make certain decisions, the supply chain will follow.. To learn more about our Design to Value approach to design and construction, sign up for our monthly newsletter here:.

http://bit.ly/BWNewsUpdatesIntroduction – what is automation in construction?.

The overall landscape of the construction industry has been changing in recent years, driven by an expanding interest in areas such as Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DfMA), Modern Methods of Construction (MMC), and the use of transformative new technologies ranging from digital design tools to construction robotics and intelligent control systems.At the same time, we attach a planned strategy for increasing or decreasing scale and content and how to flex to suit local conditions e.g.

scale up or down to hit a particular brief.rearrange or reconfigure to suit site constraints and layout.

choose between a ‘seismic’ or ‘non-seismic’ version.choose between key suppliers for major equipment or specific materials required by fire codes etc.. We achieve this level of flexibility by thinking about the asset and the design in terms of ‘Chips’.