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There will also be the potential to add other value driving services, such as atmospheric carbon removal, as well as hydrogen production with the cooling towers.

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.Designers can focus more of their efforts on solving the site and context specific challenges.

It facilitates efficient operation and maintenance.Critically, Reference Design gives teams the ability to assess a site very quickly using a ‘test fit’ process:.

The client brief drives the selection of the appropriate Chips required to build the asset.

These can then be arranged on the site according to the engineers’ predefined rules e.g.They’ve lost the car industry.

They want to create an industry.They’re bringing in young people and technology, Marks says..

However, regardless of the country, there are a few elements needed to make the shift to industrialised construction work: purpose, government support, academia, the involvement of young people, training, and complementary parts of the ecosystem - including industry and finance.. Education is a hugely important factor and Amy Marks has now written an eight-week course curriculum for Columbia University.It covers not only prefab but other industrialised construction topics such as how to look at MEP assemblies, manufacturing, automation, robotics, machine learning, AI, and construction platforms.