which Board Director Jaimie Johnston says, ‘allows a far wider range of clients to get the same benefits without the need to create a new system.’.
Not all policymakers are thinking about industrialised construction, prefabrication, or DfMA.They may be looking at things in terms of one particular market application, but not in terms of others.
So, standardisation doesn’t necessarily help us on its own, but it does have a shot of helping us if someone informs it in the right way.. She also points out that, although we could easily fight forever about industrialised construction terminology, the important thing is that the core concepts remain true.In particular, she reminds us that the term DfMA does not refer to the end product.(traditional and alternative structures).
, but rather the choices we make upfront relating to the design, manufacture and assembly process..There isn’t a hierarchy with any of this, she says, mentioning the term ‘modular’ construction.
Each industrialised construction technique is just another tool in the toolkit, with varying degrees of suitability depending on the particular scenario.. She also raises the point that some people feel threatened by the industrialised construction terminology, as a result of not having the necessary skill set.
As a result, they become very opposed.At the moment, they are working on an existing building in Hulme that hasn’t been used in quite a few years.
They’ve got to retain part of the facade and completely build a new building inside it.It needs to have a cafe and offices — it’s a mixed use type building aimed at supporting the community.
I do group work with them and help them work out how to incorporate all the M&E services into their building, but also give them a focus on sustainable design.Mostly, it’s trying to get them to think about getting adequate daylight in, which is quite interesting with the facade they’ve got because they have to reuse it, so they don’t have many options to make the windows bigger.