Sometimes we find something which human expertise has not spotted.

There are also considerable time-saving benefits with P-DfMA, which enable us to spend more time on the design and optimisation of components in the first place.We put a tremendous amount of effort into component design because we know we’ll be using those same components again and again.

Every gram of material you take out of the manufacturing process, out of each assembly process, has a massive multiplier effect in terms of material reduction.This is an important part of sustainable design.These processes then become highly repeatable, enabling greater levels of automation in construction.

We can turn to techniques such as robotic welding to make the parts, for example, and use popular distribution warehousing equipment on site.Such processes require fewer people and increase worker safety.

In a socially distanced, post Covid-19 world, the advantages are even greater.. Standardisation in construction: making the most of what works best.

It’s worth stressing again that standardisation in construction is not a negative, and it’s not unique to platform design either.The bottom line with respect to our current situation is that the world isn’t going to become any less uncertain, any time soon.

The pandemic has highlighted our ability to make large, successful shifts, and to do so very quickly.Rather than resisting change out of fear of uncertainty, we should embrace it.

Let’s use the uncertainty to fuel a change in our processes and find a better way of doing things.Often it happens that opportunities have been with us all along, we were just too nervous to take them.