Creating a sustainable future — alignment of standards and guidance.

MoJ houseblocks.The image below is an example..

The depth and breadth of value achieved is greater, the bigger and more complex the Chip.The more co-dependent elements involved, the more variables and complexity the Chip has to resolve and the wider the implications of the ways in which Chips will optimise the design.So while an inpatient room is optimised for patient comfort and the facilitation of day to day care activities, an operating theatre has more complex variables to incorporate: medical procedures, heightened levels of infection control plus the associated surgical staff, flows of clean and dirty consumables, carefully controlled flows of air, extensive use of medical equipment and data etc..

The optimal design, which we call the Reference Design, can then be largely created by combining these Chips in the most efficient way.This Reference Design can then be built again and again as a fixed product, by clients who have control over site conditions, as per the MoJ Houseblocks..

But for those who need flexibility, the Reference Design becomes far easier to configure flexibly into a physical asset when broken down into its ‘Chips’ (with more or less flexibility in how these are arranged depending on the asset type.)

By digitally modelling the design against the given brief/constraints using Chips, we can quickly see how well the design will work, and what we can adapt to fit the wide range of needs and constraints involved.She believes the heart of this may come from the fact that “data is the new oil, the new currency.”.

It’s hard to get certainty around processes that change every single time, Marks says.The construction industry needs to create some stability amongst the fluidity.

We need to create a kind of man-made reef in the ocean to provide some information within all of that water.She believes productising construction will form exactly such a reef.. What is productisation in construction?.