The Hub works collaboratively with industry, government, academia and partners.
In addition, industry players themselves have seen the benefit of coming together, not just in terms of a recovery from the immediate downturn, but also through an understanding of how transforming construction into a more productive and sustainable sector in the future can be supported and accelerated.We’re no longer talking about simply needing more people on site to build things more cheaply.
The focus now is about how we construct our assets and how we operate.. We have important questions to answer: how do we drive greater levels of manufacturing (DfMA) and more productive growth into the sector?How do we use data in a way that supports not just better construction projects, but also better operational assets?How do we drive that path to net-zero carbon emissions with greater impact on social value?
These things are crucial to strategic policy, both in terms of the new assets that we build, and how we operate the existing ones.As an industry, we have a moral obligation to do better.
The current opportunity for transformation and progress in construction has arrived at a critical time..
Evaluating Risk and Driving Value.The answer is, we use Modern Methods of Construction and we start to model it.
We link in with the people who understand the development processes, and look at the physicality of the supply chains.We look at what is likely to happen, the capacity different countries have to make different vaccines, and how such factors would affect the global supply.
Understanding the picture in this way allows us to make decisions at an early stage about what we might do, should certain circumstances arise.In this instance, we could decide in advance how we might react to a vaccine becoming available, and get it out to people quickly.. As the Factory in a Box project demonstrated, there are elements which are standardised across projects.