Ten years ago, Marks says, those types of conversations wouldn’t have existed at all..
We then proved the concept on the design and delivery of The Forge, a commercial building for Landsec, the first ‘platform’ building..There are bound to be other mid span options: using other value drivers as a start point will no doubt give rise to other types of mid span platform e.g.
a timber based or light gauge steel..However, it’s critical that, as an industry we converge on a small number of platform options.If we lose control of the number of options available, we are back to square one - we lose the benefit of standardisation, and we then lose the simplicity this creates in terms of technical compliance.. To encourage industry adoption, we have open sourced all our data, experience and learning on Platform II.. A digital library embeds specifications and compliance into upfront design and tracks these through to delivery..
The smaller number of elements to manage vs. a traditional design, captured in a digital library, will facilitate the creation of accurate, consistent and well-organised information and version control..This digital library will structure data so that design can more rigorously demonstrate compliance, earlier in the process.
It embeds sets of rules/data requirements regarding interfaces, technical requirements and standards that sit behind the models, giving a more holistic set of information.
BSA compliance data, tolerances, load, thermal performance and energy efficiency technical standards, rules around interoperability etc..These things are crucial to strategic policy, both in terms of the new assets that we build, and how we operate the existing ones.
As an industry, we have a moral obligation to do better.The current opportunity for transformation and progress in construction has arrived at a critical time..
Evaluating Risk and Driving Value.That said, there will be risks going forward and we need to guard against them.