Initial capital costs and whole-life costs will always be important, but all of the various value metrics and value drivers need to be considered alongside them..

The same brackets are used consistently and they are colour-coded.This makes it easy to teach people how to do the assembly and they become very quick at doing it.

However, the beams and columns can be any length.Spans can be specific to particular clients, but to the operative on site, it's the same yellow bracket, requiring the same torque wrench and two bolts.Platforms enable us to get down to a much more granular level and simultaneously open the door for continual improvement and variability going forward with respect to supply chain choices, material choices and so on.. Maximising value with construction platforms.

Because platform construction uses a limited number of components, it gives us a greater amount of control.We’re able to limit the number of processes and operations which have to happen on site and we can control materials much more accurately.

There are also considerable time-saving benefits with P-DfMA, which enable us to spend more time on the design and optimisation of components in the first place.

We put a tremendous amount of effort into component design because we know we’ll be using those same components again and again.We maximise understanding, efficiency and value.. An approach that feeds back into the business.

This process reflects our experience and research on design, thinking and deciding.It is structured to guide and stimulate thinking and creativity.

It allows us to combine strategic knowledge on the client side with regards to their business, and our own design knowledge about how buildings work and are constructed.. Our creative use of digital construction technologies allows us to supercharge this process.We have embedded the process into our own management systems and the outputs we produce.