Platforms - Bridging the gap between construction + manufacturing
delves into the challenges and opportunities within the Australian and global construction sectors, advocating for systemic change towards sustainability, resilience, and efficiency through collaborative efforts, digital advancements, and modern construction methodologies.. Click the 'play button' above to listen in, or read our 5 Key Takeaways from Professor Jennifer Whyte’s Insights on Construction Innovation below.... 1.
a timber based or light gauge steel..However, it’s critical that, as an industry we converge on a small number of platform options.
If we lose control of the number of options available, we are back to square one - we lose the benefit of standardisation, and we then lose the simplicity this creates in terms of technical compliance.. To encourage industry adoption, we have open sourced all our data, experience and learning on Platform II.. A digital library embeds specifications and compliance into upfront design and tracks these through to delivery..The smaller number of elements to manage vs. a traditional design, captured in a digital library, will facilitate the creation of accurate, consistent and well-organised information and version control..This digital library will structure data so that design can more rigorously demonstrate compliance, earlier in the process.
It embeds sets of rules/data requirements regarding interfaces, technical requirements and standards that sit behind the models, giving a more holistic set of information.BSA compliance data, tolerances, load, thermal performance and energy efficiency technical standards, rules around interoperability etc..
Stored in an open access, central location, the digital library is the bedrock of the digitised design to construction process.
It also embeds the standardised requirements:.We’ll be able to evaluate specifically how an energy project, a transport project, a school and a housing scheme interact.
Digital twins and federated digital twins will enable us to understand how things are actively performing..Whereas, originally, this effort focused on the capital phase of a single construction project, with digital twins we’ll be dealing with the whole life of an asset, and how it relates to, and integrates with,its environment and the other assets around it.
That level of data will provide huge knowledge and insight, which in turn will help us to make better decisions supporting our broader set of Design for Value outcomes.We’ll be able to make decisions about how we want to intervene, and it could end up shaping the policy environment.