efficiency: a predicted 9.5% reduction in capital cost, 13% reduction in programme, 40% reduction in steel used and 50% reduction in site operatives for superstructure and facade.
The benefits of using a Reference Design even with a traditional supply chain.Sometimes the lack of supply chain maturity necessitates a more traditional construction process.
However, even using a completely traditional build, reference design has numerous benefits:.It facilitates the introduction of industrialised construction (including.platform approaches or P-DfMA. )
and the use of manufactured elements in construction.Often owned by the client, it gives greater control over IP and incorporates lessons learned to improve across design cycles.
Multiple use allows for more design refinement, amplifying the benefit of good design.
It justifies a greater level of stakeholder engagement ensuring that designs are highly optimised in terms of layouts, space allocation, adjacencies, and functional flows.People are making that connection.
And we're becoming more of a global economy as well, so they're seeing examples.”.These days she’s starting to see “masses of the big players change their behaviour.”.
She’s as excited for them as she is for architects.. Marks recalls that while talking to the Head of VD&C for a large company, she was impressed with the work and incredible technology going into a two-billion-dollar hospital project.At the end of the presentation, she asked, “how much of this can you use for the next project?”.
(Editor: Lightweight Drawers)