Platform design and the IPA’s Roadmap to 2030, Built Environment Matters podcast with Trudi Sully from The Construction Innovation Hub

The chemical industry uses around 28% of all industrial energy and 10% of global final energy.

Spans can be specific to particular clients, but to the operative on site, it's the same yellow bracket, requiring the same torque wrench and two bolts.Platforms enable us to get down to a much more granular level and simultaneously open the door for continual improvement and variability going forward with respect to supply chain choices, material choices and so on.. Maximising value with construction platforms.

Platform design and the IPA’s Roadmap to 2030, Built Environment Matters podcast with Trudi Sully from The Construction Innovation Hub

Because platform construction uses a limited number of components, it gives us a greater amount of control.We’re able to limit the number of processes and operations which have to happen on site and we can control materials much more accurately.There are also considerable time-saving benefits with P-DfMA, which enable us to spend more time on the design and optimisation of components in the first place.

Platform design and the IPA’s Roadmap to 2030, Built Environment Matters podcast with Trudi Sully from The Construction Innovation Hub

We put a tremendous amount of effort into component design because we know we’ll be using those same components again and again.Every gram of material you take out of the manufacturing process, out of each assembly process, has a massive multiplier effect in terms of material reduction.

Platform design and the IPA’s Roadmap to 2030, Built Environment Matters podcast with Trudi Sully from The Construction Innovation Hub

This is an important part of sustainable design.

These processes then become highly repeatable, enabling greater levels of automation in construction.That’s the outcome and the problem we’re trying to fix..

The second important aspect to consider is value itself.In other words, what do you value about the outcome?

When we talk about value, people tend to focus on economic factors like cost and return on investment (ROI).However, value is actually much more than that.

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