Still, that’s primarily what we’re hearing about these days.
As we stare down the barrel of a rapidly growing, global population and its associated infrastructure needs, alongside an aging construction workforce and a life-altering climate crisis, our current state of low productivity, non-transferable learnings, and high waste is no longer acceptable.. It’s these types of issues, and the associated risk, industrialised construction products and processes help to resolve.. Making the change with Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DfMA).The issue of productisation forms a key concept within the industry’s broader shift toward industrialised (or manufactured) construction.
However, implementing.modular and prefabricated building components along with a.Design for Manufacture and Assembly processes doesn’t mean we’ll end up with low-quality buildings that all look the same.
In actuality, adopting this new way of working holds the key to tremendously positive and wide-reaching benefits for both people and the planet.. By adopting industrialised construction, we’ll produce.an increased quantity of high-quality, more sustainable buildings, which improve construction project safety and are also easier to build..
Still, it’s going to require us to stretch ourselves, because there are a lot of misconceptions about the term DfMA, Marks says.
In the first place, DfMA is often used to mean prefab, which it doesn’t.The publication.
Construction 2.0. , produced by the Hong Kong Development Bureau in September 2018 with the assistance of KPMG., recognises the following core challenges facing the construction industry:.
Significant future construction volumes.Unsatisfactory mega-project performance.