Construction Platform design could accelerate the capture of data needed to make this a reality.. End of life: reuse and recycle built assets.
We must understand every aspect, including workflows, performance, and sustainability.Further, it’s important to recognise that productisation won’t solve everything.
However, it will give us a starting point.. Marks refers to this as “chaos to order theory,” a phrase she coined after a superintendent on one of her first jobs described his positive experience working with bathroom pods.The pods created a welcome amount of certainty and consistency in his day.He could count on receiving them, he knew exactly what they were, and he could schedule his other work around them.
This is the power of productisation, Marks says, elaborating on her previous metaphor by saying that when you build a “man-made reef in the middle of the ocean... ecosystems build around it.”.Bringing up digital twins, she reiterates that it’s only through productisation, not process, that we’ll have the level of certainty needed to be able to do things correctly and to the best effect.
However, she cautions that we can’t just jump straight from our current position, which she likens to “crawling out of the primordial ooze,” to an end goal of mass customisation akin to ordering a bespoke, Nike shoe.. Jaimie Johnston says that at the moment, there are still too many breaks in the digital chain to get us exactly where we need to go.. “We never get operational data in a particularly sensible format,” he says.
“You know, the statutory approvals process isn't digital.”.To move more quickly continued multi-agency conversations and collaborations are needed.. Collaborative problem solving on this scale requires the right skills.
Although some great engineers are coming out of universities, the curriculum has not adjusted quickly enough to emerging trends.Students are well-versed in chemical engineering skills; however, equipping them to work across boundaries within organisations, and across organisations to help change happen quickly, seems like a challenge for academia and industry.
Creating courses which span traditional academic bastions seems important, while developing graduates into dynamic, collaborative and imaginative problem solvers is the key challenge for business.. A huge issue that is often ignored, but fundamental to the truism of “reduce” being the most important step in sustainability, is the enormous overproduction, supply, and wastage of drugs in the global ecosystem..Some medicines are manufactured, prescribed, and sold which have little or no positive impact on human health.