He’s also concerned about people focusing too heavily on potentially incidental uses of technology within buildings, which, he says, ultimately won’t contribute to solving the bigger picture problem.

Such a success would pave the way for P-DfMA and other MMC methodologies to be rolled out across other social infrastructure, including schools, social housing and more.We envision that there is likely to be about a ten-year window of opportunity here, and the industry needs to make a start.

It also seems likely that within the grand scheme of things on the horizon, the digital work will take longer than the physical aspects, and we should be conscious of that.. Miranda Sharp reminds us that digitising planning and the wider built environment won’t be easy to do.Some of the necessary work will be boring, and it will be a grind to make the data interoperable and set the transaction mechanisms.Aligning standards, cleaning up data and creating transformation will all take a long time.

The industry wants a silver bullet, it wants to skip to the end, but there’s some fairly heavy lifting to be done first.Sharp says we need to get better about taking the quick wins.

The sooner we start, the sooner we’ll reach our goal.

The rewards will be worth it.. To learn more about our Design to Value approach to design and construction, sign up for our monthly newsletter here:.We know from government data that almost 10% of their spending on construction is allocated to risk.

This hasn’t changed despite many years of operating in this way.However, it’s a risk that is, to some extent, understood.

That said, construction Platform design does help to change that risk profile dramatically and to reduce the amount of risk on a construction project..If we take another look at what the UK government is doing through the Construction Innovation Hub, we can see that they are looking to aggregate construction demand across different departments.