These include representatives from Tier 1 contractors, housing and healthcare companies, as well as other research bodies like the Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC).
Not only that, I suspect some of the current players will disrupt their own business models to broaden the range of services and income streams they're able to generate.. We’re also likely to see some contractors start to diversify the services they offer, or broaden their range of products.They’ll need to be able to respond to what happens in the future, as we change our focus to the provision of whole-life solutions, rather than just capital assets.
Pure contracting, as we currently know it, is likely to be a smaller part of the market.Consultancy models are also likely to change, with a shift away from hourly rates for procured design services, towards an outcome and value-based model.This would work more like app development, where a product developer might identify a need in the market and then create a solution to license, achieving monetisation by selling it repeatedly in the UK and overseas.
This is particularly likely if there’s a focus on design for manufacture and assembly (DfMA).. We’ll also see data driving diversification.People will begin to understand how they can use data to offer different products and services, impacting things like availability and operational performance.
In this scenario, capital costs will become something of a blip in terms of the overall service offering being brought to market.. P-DfMA and the UK’s Role within the International Community.
Then there is our work here in the UK with Platform construction (P-DfMA).Then we call on a breadth and depth of expertise to optimise every component, so that when we combine them in the complete solution, the whole will operate to the maximum efficiency of all of its parts.. We use construction technology to create a digital model of every component, containing as much value data as we can source, ranging from energy consumption to physical space requirements to expected lifespan to cost.
In the digital design environment, we experiment with a huge number of permutations of components, introducing variables, then measuring, iterating and refining, over and again..Adopting this Design to Value approach, enables us to see how small changes in one component can have a dramatic consequence at a later stage.
And conversely, we can trace inefficiencies and anomalies back to their source.By modelling the effect of several variables simultaneously we can build in flexibility where it’s needed to ensure future viability when circumstances change, which, as current events should teach us, they will.. From the earliest stages, we work with 3D visualisations of processes and physical assets.