But in order to keep fixings and supports to a minimum, fixing requirements for all M&E services are considered in coordination and designed to be shared between modules / equipment.
Ministry of Justice prisons rollout.are a good example; highly standardised, they are identical on every site, only the number and orientation changes and is dictated by the prison population and aspect/prospect of the site.
The UK prisons rollout is reporting dramatic reductions in delivery schedule with much improved certainty on just the second project to use this approach..However, in other cases, where assets need to respond to site constraints and/or business needs, then the ability to adapt a Reference Design is critical to its usefulness.We have seen clients who already have Reference Designs (also called template designs).
However, with no rules for how to adapt this Reference Design to local sites, the delivery teams can end up unravelling it and are back with new designs..Many, if not most clients, need designs that can respond to unique sites and needs e.g.
for a healthcare facility the design needs to be flexible to accommodate specific clinical specialisms and the demographics of a particular region..
So how can a Reference Design both standardise a design, yet leave enough flexibility to adapt it to any given brief?.On the other hand, in the commercial sector, he believes profit has been the primary motivator.
He notes that as the delivery of BIM as a professional service becomes more and more commoditised, value will inevitably be lost, alongside the sense of why the thing is being undertaken.Rates are also increasing, he says, with less work being done..
The role of DfMA and MMC in Australia.Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DfMA) and Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) are driving new ways of thinking in Australia, with uptake driven by schools and health.