This is a hospital which, according to Bookings Team Leader Adam Chivers, patients often comment, ‘looks like a five star hotel.’.

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.It’s unlike any other course in the world, and that’s the problem, Marks says.

There isn’t anywhere for people to go to learn these things, so we can’t expect them to finish their education and be ready to enter the space.That’s why our team at Autodesk is creating a knowledge centre - to pass on what they know through the software, through the technology..Leading the change.

According to Amy Marks, we need strong leadership figures in the industry who are going to take risks and be thought leaders.. “Every CEO that comes to me, I'm like, get ready, this is gonna take a lot of money, a lot of time, a lot of effort, you're not going to get there on one project.”.She cautions against trying small, single aspects of industrialised construction on one project at a time, as the projects take years to complete and so the learnings are too few and take much too long to achieve.

She says there’s a need for more people like herself and Jaimie Johnston to challenge what doesn’t make sense and stick their necks on the line.. “It's not easy to be the Queen of Prefab!” she says, adding, “Mike Tyson says, everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face.

I've been punched in the face a lot.The ability platforms give designers to consider and integrate all pertinent data in the earliest design concepts, mean that they can also consider operational efficiency.. On Landsec, the M&E solutions considered ease of cleaning and replacement.

These cassettes were standardised across the building, so it merited the time to optimise them so that they would be of greatest value throughout the whole life of the asset.The standardised steel beams were provided with more penetrations than the design required, this pre-enabled the asset for future adaptations: with additional fixing points already cast into in the slab, the model is less likely to need updating as adaptations or refurbishments take place.. Summary.

With the construction sector currently facing challenges on multiple fronts, it should be at least encouraging that a number of topics – sustainability, productivity and safety – all point in the same direction; a simplified and digitally-enabled design and construction process, using repeatable components manufactured at scale and assembled using standardised processes..Text extracts are taken from IPA’s ‘.