It would be even quicker if the tent was pre-erected, of course, but this doesn’t make sense from a transportation and logistics perspective.
Successfully realising the benefits of DfMA is not easy, especially for complex projects like battery factories.Simply converting a design into prefabricated parts can add logistical complexity, transport costs, and supply chain fragmentation, while also forcing design compromises..
The key to successful DfMA is embedding the mindset early on, rather than identifying small prefabrication opportunities late in the process.. For DfMA to deliver its full value, the right team must be in place from the start, including designers, specialist consultants, the client, the general contractor, and the supply chain.Clients must understand the challenges and believe in the approach.The targeted benefits of DfMA should guide workflows, approvals, and decision-making from the outset.. DfMA Starts with Design.
To maximise the benefits of DfMA, plants must first be designed rationally and efficiently.Without a well-designed building, the DfMA approach will be applied to an inefficient design, diluting its benefits or even introducing costs and complexity..
Battery plants typically have extremely large footprints to accommodate the linear assembly process.
However, requirements vary across different process stages.This is our work on Platforms for offices and commercial developments..
This work is now a key focus for the CIH, and it is the heart of the demonstrator project that has won this latest funding from UKRI.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..
This development will be two office buildings around an internal courtyard, rising to nine storeys and covering a total of 135,000 sq ft.It is designed to a ‘zero carbon in use’ strategy, and the efficiencies and innovations inherent to P-DfMA are already achieving remarkable gains: 40% reduction in steel used; a forecast 19.4% reduction in embodied carbon per square metre, a 36.4% carbon reduction in the substructure and 20.2% in the superstructure and façade.. Sumner Street is a game changer for construction.
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