Comparison embodied carbon targets from RIBA, LETI and GLA.
Ultimately, the industry would benefit from some clarity in understanding where information sits and the relative authority and legitimacy it has regardless of whether one is a business, client or someone studying the sector..Defining the Need Report: unlocking the future of industrialised construction.
The Construction Innovation Hub’s.Defining the Need Report.has made important strides in shaping the future of construction by bringing the standardised, repeatable platform systems found in the manufacturing sector into the construction industry.
The report collated cross-departmental data across UK government departments, including the Department for Education (DfE), Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG), Ministry of Justice (MoJ), and the Ministry of Defence (MoD).Defining the Need examined future requirements against a £50 billion, five-year, new build pipeline.
As all of the departments had their own nomenclature for the base types, it was an arduous task.
And yet, once all of the cross-departmental pipelines were put into Uniclass, a great deal of cross-department commonality was revealed.We look at what is likely to happen, the capacity different countries have to make different vaccines, and how such factors would affect the global supply.
Understanding the picture in this way allows us to make decisions at an early stage about what we might do, should certain circumstances arise.In this instance, we could decide in advance how we might react to a vaccine becoming available, and get it out to people quickly.. As the Factory in a Box project demonstrated, there are elements which are standardised across projects.
For example, they all need hygienic spaces, so we can make sure the hygienic components will be available regardless of the situation with projects.Components could be ready to deliver very quickly.