Once an agreed set of options has been identified and developed, we finalise our evaluation, develop recommendations and an output which is a clear and compelling presentation of the findings, and possible next steps.
But just as people no longer have their shoes tailor-made by a shoe maker, it’s time for the construction industry to embrace change and forge a new path toward progress.As we stare down the barrel of a rapidly growing, global population and its associated infrastructure needs, alongside an aging construction workforce and a life-altering climate crisis, our current state of low productivity, non-transferable learnings, and high waste is no longer acceptable.. It’s these types of issues, and the associated risk, industrialised construction products and processes help to resolve.. Making the change with Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DfMA).
The issue of productisation forms a key concept within the industry’s broader shift toward industrialised (or manufactured) construction.However, implementing.modular and prefabricated building components along with a.
Design for Manufacture and Assembly processes doesn’t mean we’ll end up with low-quality buildings that all look the same.In actuality, adopting this new way of working holds the key to tremendously positive and wide-reaching benefits for both people and the planet.. By adopting industrialised construction, we’ll produce.
an increased quantity of high-quality, more sustainable buildings, which improve construction project safety and are also easier to build..
Still, it’s going to require us to stretch ourselves, because there are a lot of misconceptions about the term DfMA, Marks says.A local mindset has been established that equates PPVC with Design for Manufacture and Assembly at the expense of alternatives.
This is starting to change with the government and private sector looking at other DfMA solutions such as panelised lightweight construction and CLT (cross-laminated timber), both of which have been successfully used in Singapore.However, local industry discussion of DfMA remains dominated by the idea of standardised PPVC modules being stacked up to form finished buildings..
The ongoing struggle to deliver PPVC cost-effectively in Singapore has an increasing degree of urgency.The disproportionate impact of COVID-19 in Singapore’s foreign workforce shows the need to drive greater productivity while reducing over-reliance on foreign labour is more urgent than ever before.