This will also reduce the embodied carbon..

How to develop the expertise and constraints of the supply chain, including integrators to get them “on the curve”!.How to find outlets for waste heat.

How to deal with fragmentation across Europe in regulations/standards.How to deliver value across the board within service level agreements..Plenty for the group to discuss and action when it meets again later this year..

Learn more about our approach to data centre design.A shift in perspective: From bespoke buildings to flexible platforms.Data centres have long been treated as one-off, large-scale engineering projects.

However, Lincoln emphasises that Edged’s approach differs, likening these facilities to repeated products that can be continually refined.

'From day one at Edged, my role as Director of Design is really trying to develop our language - call it our ‘kit of parts’ - that is agnostic to site, that can address as much of the range of constraints a site can provide, and that allows us to have repeatable components we can manage, condition, and learn from as we deploy them in projects and see the site adaptation that occurs when we do that.'.As a result, the initiative really must be headed by a government client.

This is why the Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA) set out their vision for a Platform construction (P-DfMA) approach, focusing on digitally driven, standardised, cross-sector components.Government is also uniquely positioned to take on the challenge of implementing a new, industrialised construction approach, as they have the resources required for in-depth research and development.

Still, with an undertaking as large as transforming construction, collaboration with industry will be crucial to success..The good news is that we’ve already seen this happening more recently, in terms of developing policy responses to the pandemic.