With both organisations, we are looking at ways to work together to magnify our individual impact..

Learning how the components perform, or how the facade systems are working, can help refine the components and make a better asset next time.This standardisation at component level creates the ability to put a feedback loop in place.

Furthermore, it opens up an opportunity for machine learning and artificial intelligence to come into construction, as they require vast data sets to operate.If we want to get into AI in construction, and even digital twins, we have to put the building blocks in place now.Construction Platform design could accelerate the capture of data needed to make this a reality.. End of life: reuse and recycle built assets.

When a built asset comes to the end of its life, a construction Platforms approach is appealing because it gives us sustainable options for redeployment and reuse.Automatically knowing the provenance of a built asset allows us to get into a circular economy.

Equally, we could also take components from one asset, and then use them for a different asset type in another part of the world.

This is very appealing, as reusing is even more sustainable than recycling..She refers to big-budget school programmes as an example and talks about their need for operational consistency, usually over large geos.

However, she cautions that after owners demand the change, it’s important they’re involved in allowing people to change the process to decrease risk and make things possible.. Jaimie Johnston points out that people often want innovation, but they want it to be tried and tested, without extra risk.They want a sophisticated way of delivering, but through an existing framework, an existing set of contracts, an existing set of contractual terms.. “No one doubts that you can deliver an asset using some of these technologies, he says, “but it's the framework of procurement methodology and contracts, and IP, and warranties and insurances - all those other things that need to change.”.

“What I'm finding now,” says Amy Marks, “is that they love industrialised construction, they want to understand certainty, so they're starting to dictate and decouple the process of construction and productising it.”.We need to connect makers and designers, she says.