P-DfMA Platform Design for Manufacture and Assembly

‘I was always interested in engineering.

We are able to consider a variety of architectural and environmental factors: energy balance, people movements, overshadowing, architectural aesthetics, and placemaking.This gives us much better, and much more considered, designs at site level.. Additionally, our work on REM teaches us that if the algorithm creates an unusual outcome, the solution is to fix the ruleset, not the algorithmic model.

Over time, this creates vastly improved results, as the rules and algorithmic designs get better and better.These results have allowed us to visualise and assess both the risks and opportunities of a smart motorway at the earliest planning stages.Consequently, it now takes a few days to do what used to take months..

Eventually, we believe these design apps will start to link up and talk to each other, forming a linked digital ecosystem.As such, this kind of broad, architectural master planning will not be done subjectively, by people, but rather will occur as a result of millions of iterations of potential placements.

These placements will be optimised to create the best possible solutions for all of our major functions: education, commercial spaces, residential, and industry.

This type of optimisation will happen simultaneously and in conjunction with the same process being applied to the supporting infrastructure; road, rail, hyperloops, power and water, and other transport and utilities..The small number of extra supports required during transportation to avoid damaging of services, are returned to the factory and re-used for subsequent deliveries..

The modules are installed to their pre-cast fixing points and the pipes joined together using crimped connections – a quick and simple process that requires no welding.To make things simpler still, the exact number and size of couplings needed for each module are provided in a box taped to the side.. Further benefits to logistics and on-site processes with innovative M&E design.

Delivering pipework pre-assembled and ready for installation makes transport and on-site logistics much more efficient.There is no requirement for on-site storage of parts, preparation, cutting, assembly or waste disposal.