Unknowns are inertial (hence regulations can be enablers); and there are also clear opportunities and support to try and test new ideas and processes e.g.
It brings the principles, experience and successes of the manufacturing industry to construction – with all the associated benefits in terms of reducing cost and waste, while increasing quality and efficiency.(Read more about DfMA.
M&E systems fit naturally with DfMA.Many processes and components are already standard.No-one would think of designing a sprinkler valve from scratch for every project, for example, and the use of pre-fabricated modules in risers for vertical service distribution in buildings is a technique widely in use.
DfMA is not, therefore, a revolutionary concept for M&E services.What we do is make DfMA a priority, a driving principle.. M&E in construction.
DfMA combines off-site manufacture with on-site assembly, using precision in pre-fabrication to drive on-site efficiency in both installation and operation.
Standardisation of M&E parts and equipment leads to efficiencies of scale in both procurement and manufacture, and efficiencies of labour in the application on site of simple, safe, repeated, standard tasks.. We apply the principles of DfMA to every M&E building services project we work on, regardless of scale or sector.Without the maintenance of the energy and ambition which delivered the design, the value can simply be frittered away.
You must take up the mantle and do things you have not done before, engage with people not engaged with before; like a carpentry workshop making aircraft parts.The outcome, the delivered value is the driver, not the process.. As the impacts of global warming and destruction of the natural world become clearer to us all, we should not hide away, or simply feel guilt, or try to push it away and dismiss it.
We should use our energies to connect, collaborate, innovate.If we are truly the dominant species we should and need to demonstrate the fact, through leadership and adaptation of what we do as individuals, but more importantly how we can come together to find expansive solutions to the problems we have caused..
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