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The extraordinary difficulty of COVID-19 has created new urgency in our drive to transform construction, accelerating both the pace of change within the sector and our appetite for it..The UK government’s Build Back Better initiative highlights a move away from our long-held and narrow focus on efficiency.
Instead, we're beginning to turn towards much broader value outcomes: increased safety, net-zero carbon emissions, improved build quality, social value and more.We want to create a better future for our built environment, one that benefits both people and the planet.However, to do this we’ll need to transform not only our approach, embracing new, MMC methodologies such as Design for Value and Platform construction, but also the way we work together across the public and private sector.
Collaboration will be key to success, as we begin our journey reshaping construction into an industry fit for the future..The rise of the Construction Innovation Hub.
My journey in government began in 2010.
I was involved in the nuclear sector when I was first approached to be an advisor in the UK Government Department of Energy and Climate Change.The diagram below is one we often use to explain Platform construction.
In the centre are the physical elements: superstructure, envelope, fit out and MEP (mechanical, electrical and plumbing).Surrounding these are the supporting activities and tools which inform and leverage the physical components: spatial analysis, digital tools, and delivery.. ‘Spatial Analysis’.
uses data from projects or programmes to create insight into what should be included in the physical ‘kit of parts’.This will help to ‘develop and adopt shared requirements and common standards’ as described in the ‘harmonise, digitise and rationalise’ policy.. Spatial Analysis considers the requirements of the spaces that make up assets (lighting, air change rates, thermal comfort, acoustics and so on).