Platform design and the future of construction, Built Environment Matters podcast with our Head of Global Systems, Jaimie Johnston MBE

In order to fully realise these benefits, though, the industry must first question which of our current processes should be automated and which should be re-thought..

This is due to the reduction in steel weight.Once the concrete mix was taken into account, the use of 40% GGBS and local procurement, and 26% recycled content of steel the savings are circa 60%..

The embodied carbon within the façade increased compared with initial projections.This is partly due to the anodized finish of the aluminium frame curtain walling (this couldn’t be altered due to the extant planning permission) and partly because the façade was manufactured in Poland – a country with both many transport miles and an electricity grid predominantly fuelled by coal..The internal finishes and walls performed well due to the limited quantity of materials used.

The false ceilings were omitted to reduce materials needed, the curtain walling is self finishing to the inside of the external walls, the building is largely open plan reducing the number of internal walls required and finally the raised flooring is reused from an existing building.The materials specified for the internal wall include recycled materials, reducing their embodied carbon..

Finally, the DfMA approach has optimised the MEP systems, using modular prefabricated units, which reduce the amount of material used.

When comparing our results with LETI benchmarks (see below), this is not apparent.It is our hope that these books will help further facilitate the adoption and wide-reaching benefits of Modern Methods of Construction (MMC)..

Delivery Platforms for Government Assets: creating a marketplace for manufactured spaces (2017).This is the first edition of the book whose updated version is above.

It was published in 2017.. View and download here:.Delivery Platforms for Government Assets: Creating a marketplace for manufactured spaces.