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Due to the growing pressure in the construction industry, many new developments claim they can achieve net zero carbon emissions.

Currently, after designers create the concept design (including testing related to the engineering), things get handed over to the contractors to de-risk the program, make changes, and make the design work for them.They then deliver what’s left back to the client.

Lamont doesn’t believe it’s necessarily the best process.. On the other side of things, there are governments trying to lead the path to innovation.In the UK there’s Level 2 BIM.In Australia, different states are following different approaches.

In Queensland any government project over 50 million dollars must be fully BIM detailed, with a set of requirements related to output and deliverables.That said, he believes that the contracting market is engaging for compliance, not necessarily to be more efficient.

He talks about Transport for New South Wales, who’ve come up with an amazing, digital engineering framework to set the output requirements they want the industry to meet.

Unfortunately, he says, it’s gotten lost in some of the government context of what’s going on there.Things began to shift when the Construction Leadership Council (CLC), and some of the large industry players, began to talk about how we could start to work together to be more effective.

Bryden Wood’s efforts to develop P-DfMA processes and strategies utilising platform construction and manufacturing approaches have helped to facilitate an understanding of the ways we might achieve our desired goals.. P-DfMA and The Ministry of Justice.Bryden Wood’s previous work with the first iterations of platform construction for the Ministry of Justice formed an early step on the P-DfMA path.

Trudi Sully was involved with the effort to bring manufacturing into that process as part of her work with the MTC.She notes that the MOJ programme was a great kickstarter and remains a valuable reference point..