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Intelligent design and automated fabrication remove the need for human ‘interpretation’ of drawings, increasing accuracy and consistency, for greater safety and productivity.

There’s been a real consistency to their approach and they have continued to focus their spending power to promote Modern Methods of Construction.Moreover, the Infrastructure Projects Authority (IPA) who, to some extent, hold the purse strings around infrastructure spending, have also been pushing the construction Platforms agenda..

In Asia, we’ve seen the Singapore government encouraging ‘Prefabricated Prefinished Volumetric Construction’ (PPVC), and we’ve also seen a focus on Modular Integrated Construction (MIC) in Hong Kong.Both markets have geographical constraints.Singapore is very land-constrained and has limited ‘internal’ modular manufacturing capacity, but imports have good access to the Malaysian and Indonesian markets.

On the other hand, Hong Kong has potential access to Chinese manufacturers.As such, forms of modular will no doubt be part of the future solution..

In the US, there have been several conferences about ‘industrialized construction,’ and players like Katerra and Factory_OS are developing their own vertically integrated offers..

Overall, there is a global recognition that a more manufacturing-like approach is needed.While external windows will need to be maintained to introduce daylight, this can lead to solar heat gains.

Blinds can be used but they can trap dirt, so we will place them between secondary glazing.Alternatively, we use solar film and external blinds, and if possible, design the building so the lab is north-facing..

In our experience, most of the issues with a laboratory design stem from the client laboratory equipment list.It could be it lacks definition, keeps changing, contains unknown elements or assumptions, or is poorly set up and kept.