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Such a success would pave the way for P-DfMA and other MMC methodologies to be rolled out across other social infrastructure, including schools, social housing and more.

This hasn’t changed despite many years of operating in this way.However, it’s a risk that is, to some extent, understood.

That said, construction Platform design does help to change that risk profile dramatically and to reduce the amount of risk on a construction project..If we take another look at what the UK government is doing through the Construction Innovation Hub, we can see that they are looking to aggregate construction demand across different departments.By harmonising the standards and requirements, and developing standardised components, they are creating a huge, central body of knowledge.

This library of common solutions will, in turn, mean that on each project, none of the construction design work necessarily needs to be done from scratch.Combining standardisation with the digital design tools that create better-coordinated models and data-rich designs, along with program cost and supply chain data embedded in the model, is powerful.

Add in the Hub’s work on introducing APQP, and we will get a level of consistency into components, which will deliver a real benefit.

We believe having this greater provenance over our components addresses the question of warranties and insurance, and creates a much lower risk profile on a construction project.And, by the way, interestingly enough, I don't really get punched in the face that often at all anymore, which is, I think, a litmus test that things are changing.”.

Marks says that these days people mainly just want to know how to get where they need to go with all of this.She says the CEOs still fighting the change to industrialised construction need to recognise that others aren’t anymore - that in a long-game sense, they “probably aren’t doing the right thing.”.

“Companies should be seeing this as a massive opportunity in shaping themselves,” Johnston says, “positioning themselves to see it as a benefit and not saying: ‘I hope this passes me by and I can avoid making some of the big shifts.’”.Marks reiterates that the shift to industrialised construction is going to take everyone’s involvement.