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Iris explains how understanding and applying these concepts can lead to faster, more predictable, and higher-quality construction projects..This podcast offers a comprehensive view of the future of construction, emphasising the need for lean principles, collaboration, standardisation, technological integration, and advanced planning methodologies.In this episode, Head of Global Systems,.
Jaimie Johnston MBE., explores how Platform II is setting new benchmarks in the construction industry.Discover the innovative strategies behind the design and implementation of The Forge, the first building constructed using the P-DfMA approach, and understand how Platform II is not just a concept, but a practical solution shaping the future of construction.. Click the 'play button' above to listen in, or read our 5 Key Takeaways from this episode below.... 1.
Shift from volumetric modular to platform approach:.The construction industry initially embraced volumetric modular construction as a solution to flatline productivity and inefficiency.
However, the logistical, cost, and carbon impact concerns led to the development of a platform approach.
This approach, exemplified by Platform II, leverages the benefits of manufacturing at the component level while achieving manufacturing-like productivity on-site.He, Highton and Goel remark upon the particular spaciousness of the theatres, with Goel commenting that this is a ‘major attraction’ of Circle and highlighting the fact that the anesthetic rooms are also very spacious.. ‘This facility had a particularly large percentage of orthopedic surgeons,’ says Wood, ‘and orthopedic surgeons needed a very particular form of operating theatre...more instruments tend to be involved in the operations.
Therefore, we actually simulated in three dimensions, in a virtual environment, how they were going to use their equipment...we were able to position the components within the operating theatre more accurately, so that the efficiency of the operations could be greater than within a typical, general purpose operating theatre.’.The high ceilings in the theatres are mentioned by Maswiken, as being a particularly excellent feature of the building, with respect to the way they aid with the use and management of equipment.
‘You can actually leave the key equipment in those theatres, rather than moving that equipment up and down all the time,’ he says, before reflecting that actually, because the theatres benefit from ‘integrated systems,’ everything is already mounted and can just be moved around, which he refers to as, ‘yet another advantage.’.Johnston elaborates, commenting on the high level of integration between the structural, MEP, architectural finishes, electrical, data etc… All of this, he says, allowed Bryden Wood ‘to create a high level of prefabricated MEP (building in ease of maintenance and replacement) interfacing with a highly systemised superstructure.’.