Instead, the data will help us understand network and system level impacts.
Singapore is very land-constrained and has limited ‘internal’ modular manufacturing capacity, but imports have good access to the Malaysian and Indonesian markets.On the other hand, Hong Kong has potential access to Chinese manufacturers.
As such, forms of modular will no doubt be part of the future solution..In the US, there have been several conferences about ‘industrialized construction,’ and players like Katerra and Factory_OS are developing their own vertically integrated offers..Overall, there is a global recognition that a more manufacturing-like approach is needed.
‘Volumetric’ seems to be the first and most obvious starting point, but we believe there is a need for a wider and more sophisticated ecosystem of DfMA.There may be parallels with what happened with BIM.
The UK was the first to mandate Building Information Modelling and our standards became quite widely adopted, or were at least used as a starting point, globally.
It will be interesting to see if construction Platform design has a similar global appeal, once people have understood the limitations of modular.. COVID-19: accelerating the shift to construction Platforms?.It was published in 2017.. View and download here:.
Delivery Platforms for Government Assets: Creating a marketplace for manufactured spaces.Data Driven Infrastructure: From digital tools to manufactured components (2017).
Delivery Platforms for Government Assets is primarily focused on buildings rather than infrastructure.Without duplicating the content from the earlier book, this horizontal assets book highlighted some current, relevant initiatives that were being deployed for clients - including Highways England and Crossrail - that could be replicated as a standardised, P-DfMA approach across a range of horizontal infrastructure projects in the highways, rail and water sectors.. View and download here:.