The close collaboration between Landsec, Easi-Space, the Bryden Wood design team and a new supply chain, is now applying the P-DfMA design and prototype learnings to a live Landsec project in Sumner Street, central London..
We therefore striated our schedule into four layers:.Integration of scope and design and delivery process.
Key interactions.The critical chain ran through Integration Strategy (1.)and Design Sprint (2.).
The actual tasks for Integrating Strategy were very tricky to tie down.This included understanding the design space which would bring together modular design coordination between process blocks and utilities, whole plant build sequence, process scale and duplication; and the evolution of the ‘platform’ that would meet the business needs in the future.
The approach we took for this was to plan a time of iteration between process, engineering, systemisation, and business focused expertise, assessing the Last Responsible Moment for drawing this activity to a close.
This would allow time for the Design Sprints to deliver the integrated design to the required definition at the end of the study..One of the core goals here is to return time back to the worker.. Lamont says much of this work is about humanising the workforce and humanising the workshop through technology.
Of course, the industry’s aging workforce and skills shortage means that we also need to make the industry more attractive for workers in order to overcome other problems we’re facing.We need to be clever in our approach to getting workers to engage with technology, because many of them are frightened and reticent about its adoption.
The solution lies in enabling access for people.Lamont says it's important that consultants understand that and believes we also need to focus on getting more consultants back on construction sites.