So what does this mean in the world of projects?
The design of platform interfaces is so accurate it reduces reliance on skilled trades and workmanship and provides a visual and straightforward Quality Assurance process, for greater consistency and accuracy:.The manufactured brackets that create the interfaces between beams and columns use very simple standardise tasks (bolted together vs requiring specialist steel erectors) ensuring a level of consistency normally unachievable in traditional construction..
Brackets are designed in a way that they can only be installed correctly (referred to as ‘poka-yoke’ in manufacturing) making it impossible for an error to occur or making the error immediately obvious.In addition, the brackets are colour coded, with each colour relating to a specific condition, e.g.end of bay, base of column etc.
Each colour is also liked to a series of standard tasks, such as a number of bolts and setting on their torque wrench.So, the operatives need only match the colour with the type of interface.
Platforms also simplify installation down into a series of simple, repeatable, highly productive, activities, which make the sequence of work entirely predictable, the quality assured and the speed of assembly vastly increased.. Key insight.
Consider the lifecycle of builds beyond completion: handing over all the information required to preserve the integrity of the build.It was brought across from manufacturing thanks to the involvement of the Manufacturing Technology Centre who are now a partner in the Construction Innovation Hub.
This Group’s work was documented in ‘.Delivery Platforms for Government Assets.
’ and was influential in Chancellor Philip Hammond’s November 2017 Budget Statement, which endorsed MMC and committed the government to drive its adoption..Meanwhile, the Department for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), who implemented the mandatory use of Building Information Modelling (BIM) in public sector works, funded Bryden Wood and the MTC to develop further the cross-fertilisation of manufacturing and construction.