In particular, it sets out how a platform design approach, common in the manufacturing and software industries, could be adopted by the construction sector - and the benefits P-DfMA could unlock.. View and download here:.
WiFi is full, however this would make millions of IP addresses available to us..This type of technology is currently being looked at with great interest by mining sites.
With just a single gateway, it’s possible to achieve five or ten kilometers of distance, picking up gate sensors and various pieces of important information.This might include things such as whether someone is walking in an area they shouldn’t be, or even checking to see whether a structure may have moved over a three- or six-month period.This is the type of information that’s truly valuable onsite, and we should be interrogating it.
However, it’s important to keep in mind the temporary nature of construction sites.Once they’ve gone, we’ve lost the opportunity to use construction technology to gather that simple, valuable information that can tell us what’s really happening.
It’s this data that enables us to do better designs, and better implement modules etc.
Of course, much of what we need to do is perfectly achievable with existing technology, but we can also be confident that as tech continues its rapid advancement, what we’re using a year from now will be significantly better than what we’re using today..Currently, Marks says, “we're letting people design with things that aren't real, and we're letting them make them less real by stretching them, or only looking at geometric shapes.
You actually need discrete data, you need the connection with the maker as the architect.In order to set the right parameters you need generative design, you need multi-dimensional CAD like Revit, you need those things in order to make the right decisions.”.
So, what advice does Amy Marks have for moving the industry forward?.“Everybody right now, if you're an architect or a builder, you should be working on your foundational skills with the baseline, anchor, portfolio products,” she says.. It’s then what she calls the “connective tissue” technology, the tech which forms between those products to connect them to other products, which will be the key to getting from “conceptualisation, design, to make, to operate,” she says.. Productization: building a raft in the ocean of construction.