Manufacturing construction: special report - the B1M

Importantly, the trajectory for that decarbonisation looks healthy.

For those struggling with their mental health these black and white judgements get people stuck into deep furrows of thinking and emotions.Curiosity is the escape, it breaks down the black and white into diverse elements, like diffracting white light into a myriad of different colours.

Even negative ideas and feelings can be broken down into many different strands some of which can be used to find and weave a new perspective.. For me, curiosity is bright, coolly energetic, imaginative, the suspense of judgement until the last moment.Curiosity is optimistic, believing that through understanding comes the potential for improvement.Without curiosity, humans would simply not have developed and without curiosity now we will remain stuck in our industrial greenhouse..

In my curiosity, I decided I wanted to know the answer to a simple question.Having been involved a little in a project to look at the production of carbon-neutral synthetic aviation fuel and conversations about the replacement of coal-fired power stations with small nuclear energy generation; I wanted to know how many small nuclear plants it would take to replace the totality of aviation fuel.

Given that it seems that using agricultural biofuels is a cul-de-sac; I imagined all the synthetic fuel being fixed from CO2 in the atmosphere.. Now I am aware that my calculations may be wrong, I used good, referenced papers and information, but I can make mistakes.

The answer I came to was, at first, shocking.This framework proposes Pre-Manufactured Value (PMV) as a metric for assessing the scale of MMC adoption on a project.

PMV is calculated as the percentage of cost that is derived before any site works and strongly encourages maximising the proportion of off-site works.. As a result, many parts of the construction industry are focusing more and more on off-site prefabrication in pursuit of benefits including lower cost, reduced delivery timescales, higher quality, improved health and safety, less waste and more productive site labour..But is off-site always the best way to achieve these benefits?

Construction sites have been around since the dawn of civilisation.Do we really want to walk away from all that learning, and start moving as much of the construction process as possible into distant sheds?.