It requires collaboration and the convening power of the Construction Leadership Council will be crucial to that.. BIM and digital twins.
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..However, it’s worth stating that this is a huge simplification; that the true meaning of ‘circular economy’ is phenomenally complex (especially when we’re considering a 60-year plus period – how well do we believe someone in 1960 would have predicted the market in 2020?)
This is a topic in its own right that we’ll explore another time – but what we can say for now is that construction Platforms seem like a sensible way of facilitating this approach.. What are the challenges to widespread adoption of construction Platform design?.
None of the challenges present in getting the industry to adopt a construction Platforms approach are technical.Johnston, an architect himself, is keen to reclaim the role.
He feels these new tools will help architects improve designs, outcomes and generally “achieve better things for clients.”.In other words, it’s the combination of productisation and technology that becomes the truly enabling factor..
Currently, Marks says, “we're letting people design with things that aren't real, and we're letting them make them less real by stretching them, or only looking at geometric shapes.You actually need discrete data, you need the connection with the maker as the architect.