Not all policymakers are thinking about industrialised construction, prefabrication, or DfMA.
They’ve got to retain part of the facade and completely build a new building inside it.It needs to have a cafe and offices — it’s a mixed use type building aimed at supporting the community.
I do group work with them and help them work out how to incorporate all the M&E services into their building, but also give them a focus on sustainable design.Mostly, it’s trying to get them to think about getting adequate daylight in, which is quite interesting with the facade they’ve got because they have to reuse it, so they don’t have many options to make the windows bigger.They’ve got to think of a more interesting way of doing it.
I’ve given them some homework and this time they are going to be presenting their daylighting to me.They all have fully glazed facades on the south facing, so it’s trying to get them to think about the fact it’s going to overheat and they have to look at solar shading and passive design measures.
The overarching premise is getting them to think from an architectural perspective about how they can influence the environmental design of the building.
If they do it now whilst they’re still at uni, when they get into practice they can apply the principles more easily, which not only makes the M&E teams’ jobs better, but also, ultimately, delivers a better, more efficient, building to their client.. IP: In general, are architects as focused on this area as they could be?.The broader impact of TIP 2021.
The Roadmap to 2030 discusses the wider implications of the change.It talks about disaggregated supply chains, and therefore how we might engage SMEs, or how we might lower the barrier to entry.
It talks about the strong link between digital and physical, in that, once you have these components, it unlocks configurators and the potential for a digital marketplace.TIP 2021 talks about factory-like conditions on site.. There’s been an increasing sophistication around people's understanding of modern methods of construction, in that MMC doesn't just mean offsite, and neither does platform construction (P-DfMA), We’re starting to talk much more about the real drivers.