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The Forge.. Its lean design, using a standardised ’kit-of-parts’ and the better control on the specification and procurement of materials has shown the following benefits:.Reduction of the amount of material used.
Reduction of waste produced during construction.Reduction of the time and human resources spent in the delivery of the project.Enables local sourcing.
Reduction in whole life carbon.This has led to a 22% reduction in embodied carbon compared to the traditional construction approach.
The project predicts a 9.5% reduction in capital cost and 13% reduction in programme..
Carbon reduction against baseline.Whilst the insides of the pods were identical, the outside utility connections were different every single time.
Johnston warns of the knock-on effects of these types of scenarios, where a lack of advanced planning results in a total loss of the intended value.. Marks agrees and says the solution lies in bringing the construction site build portion of projects up to the same accuracy as the modules.. Modular construction.Bringing up the B2 Atlantic Yards project, Amy Marks explains that the problems caused by the module frames not being reset when needed is an easily fixable issue to learn from, not a reason to write off prefab altogether.. For example, lessons learned from the earlier Victoria Hall project in Wolverhampton (which saw tolerance issues between the modules and core structure of the building), did inspire a shift from concrete to structural steel frames on Atlantic Yards.. Further, while she believes it’s possible to achieve tolerances, she says that not every process (ie.
every contract, every scope, every specification) is currently set up for accurate tolerances.This needs to change, she says, or what we’re aiming to do will be nearly impossible.. “You can't have the same behaviour and think you're going to have some dramatically different result (that's going to be great) all of a sudden.’.