Following this experience Stefanos became involved in the design, development and delivery of the T3 Temporary FCC at Heathrow Airport; a challenging facility that was designed and built in less than a year, with short deadlines and many restrictions.
A school, for example, can be configured in just 15 minutes.. Key insight.We will need more.
convincing mechanisms to ensure that what was designed is what is built..The process will be able to handle multiple stakeholders and purposes, all at the same time, mitigating and eliminating the risk in these where possible.. Industry challenge.Even if each stakeholder or specialist, does their utmost to deliver as planned, the interfaces where specialisms meet will remain a tolerance risk.. As long as changes can be made on site, assets will always be vulnerable to unintended consequences..
Platforms solution.Platform II acts as a carrier frame, providing a stiff and accurate superstructure that allows proof of compliance in installation.
Platforms dramatically reduce the risk of on-site changes in two key ways:.
Intelligent design and automated fabrication remove the need for human ‘interpretation’ of drawings, increasing accuracy and consistency, for greater safety and productivity.Our Creative Technologies team - the vast majority of whom are architects - know that developing the algorithm and computational design is as much a part of the creative design process as sketching something.. M for Manufacture in DfMA: The move to a manufacturing mindset.
We have already seen our PRiSM to Platforms digital workflow deliver tremendous improvements to the procurement and payment process.As soon as we have a design we like, we can instantly generate a data model.
This information gives us all the bill of materials quantities we’ll need for the project, and from this data set we can also create the BIM models (ie.the BIM model is one ‘view’ of the data set, not the other way round).
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