Digitisation would open up new ways to engage the wider public at all stages of the planning process..
We believe having this greater provenance over our components addresses the question of warranties and insurance, and creates a much lower risk profile on a construction project.What’s more, the idea of pre-prototyping components before we get to site should mean there is very little left to learn.
Ultimately, this creates far fewer opportunities for snags and delays.. Reducing risk in construction and attracting investors.Changing the risk profile of construction should unlock investment into the industry.As things stand, we know from talking to funders that construction is seen as the riskiest investment option by far.
Conversely, we know there’s a great deal of interest in financing clean technology, so there’s a lot of money going into an associated industry.Construction Platform design offers a huge opportunity, because if we could demonstrate a consistent ability to deliver things to price and budget, investors would view construction differently.
As a result, this could see investors flooding towards construction, as they would get a healthy return on their investment.
There’s also the potential for the creation of a virtuous circle, whereby investment boosts spending on construction, which creates jobs and skills.Bryden Wood is an industry leader in the adoption of Platforms-based Design for Manufacture and Assembly (P-DfMA) and has always shown a keen interest in the adoption of the newest and more advanced sustainability certification schemes, such as Passivhaus.. Our experience indicates that the standardisation process of P-DfMA, can be a suitable approach to counterbalance Passivhaus’ challenges described above, as follows:.
Reduced design cost and complexity:.The standardisation process reduces the number of construction elements which in turn dramatically reduces the number of elements and potential thermal bridges, making the design simpler and more cost-effective.
The repeated use of the same details significantly reduces the design cost and complexity, and facilitates the achievement of Passivhaus’ thermally bridge free design ethos..Being able to deliver Passivhaus detailing onsite requires complex coordination, overlap of materials and components and accuracy in order to achieve the specified final performance and certification.
(Editor: Durable Blenders)