Things aren’t being effectively fed back or built upon, and so we aren’t seeing the beneficial changes we desire.
This will be challenging, but as time goes on and datasets improve, reactivity will get quicker, and the process will stabilise as construction supply chain information becomes more freely available.. 3.Sadly, we don’t have a ‘truth serum’ but improving transparency and consistency of supply chain data improves productivity and planning.. At the moment, suppliers and contractors fix certain problems and course-correct without ever needing to be transparent.. We need a platform that integrates different data sets from different suppliers so we can see and trend what’s going on within the supply chain and create more formal accountability on information being reported..
Bringing data into one place and organising it around packages will give owners a single pane of glass through which to visualise what’s going on between the planning side and the production side of the supply chain.. A deeper understanding of the supply chain enables everyone to see patterns in the availability of products, to ask the right questions, and to plan better.. 4.Standardising areas of variance and stepping away from totally bespoke designs is key..The perfect future is a ‘data clearing house’ where minor design modifications to better align with supply chain data can transform productivity..
The key to achieving this is better communication between owners and suppliers, where the supply chain can offer equivalent alternatives and remove some ‘bespokeness’ from the process..If we issue the same design intent multiple times but continue to detail it in slightly different ways, the result is lots of slightly different projects, all with different supply chains.
Instead, we could save on project costs and schedules if everyone optimised around the same thing, started defining the information behind standardisation and supply chains, and began thinking of projects more like products.. 5.
Only by dispelling the mystique of construction, can we reveal real value..The results show that distance is very important and the carbon emissions from northern France, Belgium and western Germany are relatively small.
In the case of Spain or Sweden, even though these materials can be shipped by boat (lower carbon emissions per nautical kilometre), the distances are so large that they amount to more than double the emissions from road only transportation.However, they are still small compared to A1-A3.. Accounting for biogenic carbon capture when carrying out a whole life carbon assessment.
Biogenic carbon capture is the process whereby trees absorb and store carbon dioxide during growth.Once cut down, part of this carbon (from leaves, roots, and small branches) is released and the remaining is stored in the trunk, which is used for timber.. New trees are planted in its place to ensure a constant process of removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.