on a number of projects which include a private hospital in Kent; expansion of a waste water treatment plant in Cambridgeshire; the product design of a modular plug-in.
Accuracy in installation is achieved via factory conditions on site:.Standardised platforms and components.
Increased use of standardised, repeatable, design and components inherently lead to less variance and more standardised tasks on site, which already reduces the risk of the need for changes and thus the potential to deviate from the original design..The greater use of consistent, digital workflows through design, procurement and manufacturing will extend into of logistics and labour; predicting operative numbers, positioning them on site and schedule their training and workload.This level of control is unremarkable in manufacturing, extraordinary in construction.. 2.
Standardised labour operations.The reliance of traditional construction on variable quality of workmanship/skill of the site operative makes it difficult to guarantee that what was drawn and specified is actually what is installed..
The design of platform interfaces is so accurate it reduces reliance on skilled trades and workmanship and provides a visual and straightforward Quality Assurance process, for greater consistency and accuracy:.
The manufactured brackets that create the interfaces between beams and columns use very simple standardise tasks (bolted together vs requiring specialist steel erectors) ensuring a level of consistency normally unachievable in traditional construction..Essential Guide to BIM for DfMA.
which was authored by Bryden Wood in conjunction with BCA.The Guide was intended to demonstrate the opportunities that DfMA (and particularly PPVC) could bring to projects, but also to consider and explain typical BIM considerations that should be taken at each stage of a DfMA project to set it up for success..
Essential Guide to BIM for DfMA.presented several early adopter case studies in Singapore with a focus on PPVC.
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