HH: If we come along at a later date and try to apply a sustainable strategy or passive design measures to a building, it’s likely to impact on the architecture quite significantly.
Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DfMA) and Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) are driving new ways of thinking in Australia, with uptake driven by schools and health.However, Lamont says these methods aren’t in alignment with the old ways of making money, and so MMC costs remain high.
There are also things happening purely from a compliance perspective, such as aluminum cladding replacement programs.These are government pieces of work, specifically looking for innovative techniques.Ultimately, there are similar standards to 19650 coming into play.
Level 2 is coming in with the language.There’s also a relationship in terms of how smart contracts are being tied into those sorts of outcomes.
However, much of this evolution is happening in a piecemeal way.. asBuilt believe the situation is too big for the government to bring entirely under control, and say there are cost overruns for the benefits they’re realizing, which pertain to the inputs.
Lamont calls it a case of swings and roundabouts, noting that without action you get nothing, yet once something is prescribed it seems to be too much.Suddenly, we’ll be using construction digitalisation all the time, and we’ll start to see platforms emerge which aren’t thinking at the level of the consultant, but are addressing some of the more specific and prevalent construction site issues instead.
One such issue is illiteracy.We need to begin targeting the many construction workers who can’t read particularly well, and figuring out practical ways we can get them to use construction technology.
These are the types of changes which will unlock the sub-trades and the main contractors, ultimately leading to an unlocked construction ecosystem.. Data and spatial mapping in construction technology.At the moment, there are lots of buzzwords in the construction industry around digital, construction technology.
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