Aligning standards, cleaning up data and creating transformation will all take a long time.

We've already seen other sectors - entertainment, retail, music - being disrupted over the last 25 years.Rather than resisting the process, the big players of the construction industry need to acknowledge the reality of where we’re heading.

They should be evaluating the types of opportunities this will create and figuring out how to shape themselves in order to take advantage of those opportunities.They need to work out how to address the vast, global market that’s on the way.We are now starting to see people considering these issues.. P-DfMA for the future.

From the aging demographic to the impact of COVID-19, the challenges facing the construction industry have never been starker.This reality, coupled with a climate crisis the construction industry is significantly contributing to (producing 39% of global carbon emissions), means that we are faced with an urgent need for action.

The good news is that all of the enablers needed to take the industry forward are already in place.

The construction Platform movement is gaining momentum and we hope it could be our current reality within five to ten years.We are continuing to work on the project as Design Guardian.. A complete mechanical and electrical engineering solution.

Over the years, design and build of complex facilities has become piecemeal.Contracts are split up between designers and contractors, and everyone tries to minimise or pass on risk.

The trouble with this is that it destroys value for the client – it removes the big picture view, which is really important, especially on highly complex and intricate jobs like laboratories or some of the others I’ve described here.Some of the time, we find ourselves having to fix work that has been poorly conceived and carried out because of this way of working.