The future of construction: not just components.
We’re no longer talking about simply needing more people on site to build things more cheaply.The focus now is about how we construct our assets and how we operate.. We have important questions to answer: how do we drive greater levels of manufacturing (DfMA) and more productive growth into the sector?
How do we use data in a way that supports not just better construction projects, but also better operational assets?How do we drive that path to net-zero carbon emissions with greater impact on social value?These things are crucial to strategic policy, both in terms of the new assets that we build, and how we operate the existing ones.
As an industry, we have a moral obligation to do better.The current opportunity for transformation and progress in construction has arrived at a critical time..
Evaluating Risk and Driving Value.
That said, there will be risks going forward and we need to guard against them.Adopting a Design to Value approach is achievable.
It isn’t magic..The issue regarding its wider scale adoption is simply that it requires the industry to break with the ideas and processes we’ve been following before.
There’s a certain amount of security in taking a brief and just doing what has been asked of you.Companies have worked out a way to survive in this way.