Although future timescales can sometimes feel abstract, 2050 really isn’t far away and our net zero deadline is looming.
Step-by-step hierarchy for net zero embodied carbon.Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DfMA).
As identified above, DfMA is an essential part of the strategy to achieve net zero embodied and operational carbon.Bryden Wood’s Platform approach to Design for Manufacture and Assembly (P-DfMA) is a system that delivers efficiencies across the entire construction process by applying the principles of manufacturing.. Bryden Wood have taken the P-DfMA approach for the design of multiple projects, like Landsec’s The Forge office development in London, where we have followed the hierarchies described above..The Forge.. Its lean design, using a standardised ’kit-of-parts’ and the better control on the specification and procurement of materials has shown the following benefits:.
Reduction of the amount of material used.Reduction of waste produced during construction.
Reduction of the time and human resources spent in the delivery of the project.
Enables local sourcing.We're not enabling productisation.
There's a difference.And I think we have to quickly almost leapfrog over fabrication to productisation.”.
Marks says that productisation will free architects, empowering them to be “the true architects of the parameters, of the combination, of those elements.”.Additionally, she adds, given that not everything warrants productisation, architects will be able to spend more time doing the work they came into the industry to do - the more artistic work, and the work more specifically related to the end-user experience.. Jaimie Johnston agrees there’s a massive opportunity on offer for designers with industrialised construction.. “The people who write the standards don't necessarily understand the implications; clients want the value, but don't know how to do it; product producers have no product know-how to make the bits.
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