While there, he engaged Bryden Wood and together they developed the Front End Factory, a collaborative endeavour to explore how to turn purpose and strategy into the right projects – which paved the way for Design to Value.
She cautions that we don’t want a level of standardisation where there isn’t space for innovation, or which “precludes fabrication.”.These things really depend on who makes the standards, she says, what they are thinking of enabling in the future, and what their understanding of the future looks like.
Not all policymakers are thinking about industrialised construction, prefabrication, or DfMA.They may be looking at things in terms of one particular market application, but not in terms of others.So, standardisation doesn’t necessarily help us on its own, but it does have a shot of helping us if someone informs it in the right way.. She also points out that, although we could easily fight forever about industrialised construction terminology, the important thing is that the core concepts remain true.
In particular, she reminds us that the term DfMA does not refer to the end product.(traditional and alternative structures).
, but rather the choices we make upfront relating to the design, manufacture and assembly process..
There isn’t a hierarchy with any of this, she says, mentioning the term ‘modular’ construction.“My apprenticeship has shown me what's possible and given me the ambition to go on and do a university degree.
On the way, I've matured as a person and have gained confidence from real-life problem solving.I also value being part of a team.
I'd say to any school leaver who's not sure about university that there are some great career paths to be taken through apprenticeships.I had a couple of years working in a job I didn't really like after school.