Data-driven and science-based approaches.
Designing flexible Reference Designs.In Reference Design, we create a core design of the most common of our clients’ facility type using a process of rationalisation, optimisation and standardisation.
At the same time, we attach a planned strategy for increasing or decreasing scale and content and how to flex to suit local conditions e.g.scale up or down to hit a particular brief.rearrange or reconfigure to suit site constraints and layout.
choose between a ‘seismic’ or ‘non-seismic’ version.choose between key suppliers for major equipment or specific materials required by fire codes etc.. We achieve this level of flexibility by thinking about the asset and the design in terms of ‘Chips’.
To create Chips, we break your assets, and the processes within them, down into the smallest, meaningful sets of interacting or interdependent components.
Chips are created at all levels, from.McKinsey have discussed suicide rates in construction previously, as well as other difficulties the industry is facing.
One of the core goals here is to return time back to the worker.. Lamont says much of this work is about humanising the workforce and humanising the workshop through technology.Of course, the industry’s aging workforce and skills shortage means that we also need to make the industry more attractive for workers in order to overcome other problems we’re facing.
We need to be clever in our approach to getting workers to engage with technology, because many of them are frightened and reticent about its adoption.The solution lies in enabling access for people.