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.
It’s important to stay flexible.Using Chips enabled the success of the Parma project, and structural modelling also enabled design simplification and a quicker timescale.
The project was completed in just 18 months and awarded ISPE facility of the year.. We also successfully created something we called a Factory in a Box pharmaceutical facility.It was built with eight Ghurkas from components delivered in shipping containers.The Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DfMA) project answered an important question for large companies wondering how to build high-quality facilities in emerging markets, quickly and efficiently, with varied local capability.
It also addressed the desire to use that investment to improve skills and capabilities in the local area.The answer was to use components which were readily available in the supply chain, and bring them together in a simple but clever way.
No specialist construction knowledge was required to complete the build, and so soldiers, not builders, were used to construct the facility..
Factory in a Box is an excellent example of ways in which MMC can be used to meet quality requirements and diversify the workforce, whilst also substantially reducing costs and speeding up the construction process.Additionally, the model could show that the system was sensitive to assumptions made for travel time of materials between stations, but that the different production schedules and variation in process time only resulted in slight variations in results.. With this simulation able to rapidly test multiple options and scenarios, the model can continue to be used to test further sensitivities in the process or be expanded to include even more of the system.
This could include raw material handling, truss packing and shipping, or even wider in the supply chain.. Long term changes supported by simulation and automation.This type of project demonstrates how simulation can support automation in construction, providing dynamic time-based results to design teams and stakeholders to aid in their decision making – particularly highlighting how and where automated processes can provide the biggest benefit for process or cost.
As part of the wider construction industry, these types of approaches will be able to support the large changes that will need to occur within the next decade.From the use of DfMA factories to supply increasing demands for buildings and infrastructure while making best use of diminishing workforce, to integrating the supply chain, and cutting building costs and carbon footprint, the application of DEM as a powerful form of automation in construction is an exciting proposition for the future of the construction industry.Above - in this video, Architecture Director Steven Tilkin describes Bryden Wood's approach to designing a new type of prison [image MoJ].. An innovative approach from an innovative Ministry.