As identified above, DfMA is an essential part of the strategy to achieve net zero embodied and operational carbon.
So, what advice does Amy Marks have for moving the industry forward?.“Everybody right now, if you're an architect or a builder, you should be working on your foundational skills with the baseline, anchor, portfolio products,” she says.. It’s then what she calls the “connective tissue” technology, the tech which forms between those products to connect them to other products, which will be the key to getting from “conceptualisation, design, to make, to operate,” she says.. Productization: building a raft in the ocean of construction.
The process of productising the pieces and parts involved in construction will help inform our understanding of what technological connective tissue is missing, as well as what we need to do to fill in the gaps.. Amy Marks compares the productisation of those elements to building a raft or reef in the middle of the ocean.Whether it be a generator, a panel, a bathroom pod, or something else, productisation will provide something solid to work with inside a sea of fluidity, something we can “actually track through and map…”.The key, she says, is that the products must be fully defined.
We must understand every aspect, including workflows, performance, and sustainability.Further, it’s important to recognise that productisation won’t solve everything.
However, it will give us a starting point.. Marks refers to this as “chaos to order theory,” a phrase she coined after a superintendent on one of her first jobs described his positive experience working with bathroom pods.
The pods created a welcome amount of certainty and consistency in his day.■ Use minimised.
■ Recycling maximised.Maybe these could be summed up with the joint sentiment that an industry focused on health should not conspire to harm the long-term well-being of society..
So how do we accelerate?.The drivers for change in this arena need themselves to change, in reality and in dialogue.. With tough and uncertain trading conditions, drivers which do not put economics at the centre of things, risk becoming marginalised.
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