Sustainable design and building physics
Integrated Project Delivery (IPD).
50,000 wind turbines would also deliver the required power, in the world today there are already 350,000.. Industrialisation of the past advanced many things for humans, but it has also led us into this deep furrow.The fourth industrial revolution has often been proclaimed as that of AI, Machine Learning, the internet of things, but the fourth industrial revolution needs to be about decarbonisation.
This will be about the industrialisation of wind, wave, water, solar power; industrialisation of energy saving, carbon-capture and energy storage.All this must be done with the lowest embedded carbon methods we can find, while also protecting and supporting the natural world to begin to thrive again..This is no simple task.
However, we know that the systematisation of methods, super-charged with developments in creative technologies, is a proven way to exponentially industrialise, as it has in the last 100 years.Approaches which modularise process plants and utilities move construction techniques into mass production techniques.
Building platforms move us away from bespoke design and delivery into repeatable, lean methods of construction.
Approaches to standardisation and mass-customisation allow us to adapt solutions to the real world while protecting and massively improving productivity.This makes it easy to teach people how to do the assembly and they become very quick at doing it.
However, the beams and columns can be any length.Spans can be specific to particular clients, but to the operative on site, it's the same yellow bracket, requiring the same torque wrench and two bolts.
Platforms enable us to get down to a much more granular level and simultaneously open the door for continual improvement and variability going forward with respect to supply chain choices, material choices and so on.. Maximising value with construction platforms.Because platform construction uses a limited number of components, it gives us a greater amount of control.