Designing data centre M&E: DfMA and an integrated approach

This is a new initiative set up by Westminster, which involves older students helping teach the younger ones.

Digitisation will improve transparency, information exchange, payment performance and contract management across the supply chain.Standard components and digital tools - the construction Platforms ‘ecosystem’.

The underpinnings of a potential marketplace are set out in the Playbook, which states that Government:.will look to procure construction projects based on product platforms comprising of standardised and interoperable components and assemblies, the requirements for which will be part of a digital component catalogue..Contracting authorities should collaborate to find […] ways in which cross-sector platform solutions can be applied […] that enable interoperability of components across different sectors.. Future procurements and frameworks should support this with the development of a market and supply chain that can develop and deliver designs based on these platform approaches, manufacture and supply components, and innovate to improve and develop.

these over time.Construction Platforms will be familiar to anyone who has been following Bryden Wood’s work over the last few years.

What is interesting here, though, is the strong link being made between standard components and digital libraries, and the need to create a market which supports the approach.. As we’ll see in the following examples, the combination of standard components and digital tools is exactly what we need to facilitate a digital marketplace.

and improve construction procurement methods.By ensuring that every element of these crucial facilities is viewed as an integral part of the whole, and by optimising all of them together, we will continue to work with our clients to ensure that the future of this market is a positive one.Jaimie Johnston MBE.

, Head of Global Systems at Bryden Wood, hosts., Founding Director and co-CEO of.

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