Build Nothing: identify opportunities to reuse existing structures, refurbish and reuse demolition materials onsite.
This level of standardisation has the capability to create fewer documents and standards, giving the market a much better opportunity to respond, he says.Johnston feels that the adoption of a more standardised, foundational approach will act as a springboard, setting up the opportunity to work with more sophisticated industrialised construction techniques like prefab and DfMA.. Amy Marks is fine with the idea of standardisation but thinks things also depend on how performance-based, or prescriptive those standards are.
She cautions that we don’t want a level of standardisation where there isn’t space for innovation, or which “precludes fabrication.”.These things really depend on who makes the standards, she says, what they are thinking of enabling in the future, and what their understanding of the future looks like.Not all policymakers are thinking about industrialised construction, prefabrication, or DfMA.
They may be looking at things in terms of one particular market application, but not in terms of others.So, standardisation doesn’t necessarily help us on its own, but it does have a shot of helping us if someone informs it in the right way.. She also points out that, although we could easily fight forever about industrialised construction terminology, the important thing is that the core concepts remain true.
In particular, she reminds us that the term DfMA does not refer to the end product.
(traditional and alternative structures).The 3D design models I create contain all the data that’s needed.
So you can see not just how an assembly looks, but how it will operate as well.The M&E models can be combined with mechanical, structural and architectural models to make a complete “virtual” building.
That lets us see how systems interacts with other aspects of the design, and also allows us to assess compliance.”.How do you create the models?.