The laminated notices on lamp posts which inform the public of local planning applications can easily be missed or ignored, and are often hard to understand.
Construction Platform design could accelerate the capture of data needed to make this a reality.. End of life: reuse and recycle built assets.When a built asset comes to the end of its life, a construction Platforms approach is appealing because it gives us sustainable options for redeployment and reuse.
Automatically knowing the provenance of a built asset allows us to get into a circular economy.Equally, we could also take components from one asset, and then use them for a different asset type in another part of the world.This is very appealing, as reusing is even more sustainable than recycling..
However, it’s worth stating that this is a huge simplification; that the true meaning of ‘circular economy’ is phenomenally complex (especially when we’re considering a 60-year plus period – how well do we believe someone in 1960 would have predicted the market in 2020?)This is a topic in its own right that we’ll explore another time – but what we can say for now is that construction Platforms seem like a sensible way of facilitating this approach.. What are the challenges to widespread adoption of construction Platform design?.
None of the challenges present in getting the industry to adopt a construction Platforms approach are technical.
The majority of objections are linked to cultural mindset factors.The key, she says, is that the products must be fully defined.
We must understand every aspect, including workflows, performance, and sustainability.Further, it’s important to recognise that productisation won’t solve everything.
However, it will give us a starting point.. Marks refers to this as “chaos to order theory,” a phrase she coined after a superintendent on one of her first jobs described his positive experience working with bathroom pods.The pods created a welcome amount of certainty and consistency in his day.