It is our hope that these books will help further facilitate the adoption and wide-reaching benefits of Modern Methods of Construction (MMC)..
While the Tier One role is likely to see the biggest change and will probably face the biggest challenge ahead in terms of evolving their mindsets and positions for the future models, the SMEs might be doing more of what they do, but better and more consistently.SMEs make up a massive portion of the industry, with significant diversity, and we’ll probably also start seeing disruptors in this space as well..
The Construction Innovation Hub is currently working with a wide range of partners including individual consultants and small companies.This includes SMEs with new approaches, technologies and kit developed to support the manufacture of products set to become part of these platform (P-DfMA) systems.The Hub is also working with the companies who will actually be onsite, and who understand how these systems work and effectively integrate in order to facilitate delivery of the built environment itself.. Then there are the companies working in areas like MEP and facades.
In some respects they’re the easy ones, because many of them are already manufacturing products.They’re familiar with manufacturing processes and, in some cases, are already supplying other industries and familiar with other mindsets and cultures.
They’ll easily adapt to this future delivery model.. As the SMEs grow and invest in their capabilities, we’ll see more drive from that supply chain side because of the confidence they’ll have in the pipeline, and the opportunity to be secure in that investment.
However, one challenge we do face is that SMEs can be hard to reach because they’re often so busy doing their jobs that they don’t necessarily have time to look at these bigger changes.Replacing fossil fuels with sustainable energy infrastructure.
Overcoming the climate emergency won’t stop with decarbonising electricity production.We need to replace our entire global, fossil fuel based energy infrastructure by 2050.
Transport and industry must be addressed alongside electricity production.We need solutions not only for coal, but also for liquid fuels.
(Editor: Basic Steamer)