These placements will be optimised to create the best possible solutions for all of our major functions: education, commercial spaces, residential, and industry.
Approaching our processes from a mindset of constant questioning and exploration, with a goal of deeper understanding, is what really gets people thinking and seeing things differently.This is how we’ll create real change.. Kit-of-parts and the Value Toolkit.
When the Construction Innovation Hub began, the intention was for a project management strategy focused on iteration and development.The goal was to develop a kit-of-parts approach that could be implemented with manufacturing processes, assembled in standardised ways, in standardised environments.That still exists, but the Hub is now aware of the need to look at other and bigger elements as well, such as information management..
The Construction Innovation Hub is interested in how we can use data more effectively, and how it can be interoperable, reused in different ways by different parties, and throughout the life of an asset.The Hub will continue to explore how to develop platform construction (P-DfMA), and how people can benefit from it, with an aim of developing guides and rule books, but it’s also now looking beyond modern methods of construction (whether you call that platform construction, offsite, or DfMA), at traditional construction as well.
It’s viewing things at an ecosystem level and bringing them all together with elements like the Value Toolkit, which is there to help everyone, but will specifically help clients make better, value based decisions using consistent processes and approaches..
The act of combining that with all of the different approaches to delivering buildings means we’re able to progress delivery, while looking towards the long-term as well.It's based on the idea of a microchip within a computer.
The microchip is the bit that does the hard work.It's the intelligent bit and the bit that adds value.. Chips are enabling tools that do a lot of work and add a lot of value.
Within our wider Design to Value approach and methodology, they provide a common language for all the people involved in a project, they enable collaboration and the rapid development and testing of multiple ideas.We've seen the benefits they deliver..