process and the advantages to the whole life cycle to a project this brings.Tanya is a director and project lead, specialising in agile project management techniques.

The fourth industrial revolution has often been proclaimed as that of AI, Machine Learning, the internet of things, but the fourth industrial revolution needs to be about decarbonisation.This will be about the industrialisation of wind, wave, water, solar power; industrialisation of energy saving, carbon-capture and energy storage.

All this must be done with the lowest embedded carbon methods we can find, while also protecting and supporting the natural world to begin to thrive again..This is no simple task.However, we know that the systematisation of methods, super-charged with developments in creative technologies, is a proven way to exponentially industrialise, as it has in the last 100 years.

Approaches which modularise process plants and utilities move construction techniques into mass production techniques.Building platforms move us away from bespoke design and delivery into repeatable, lean methods of construction.

Approaches to standardisation and mass-customisation allow us to adapt solutions to the real world while protecting and massively improving productivity.

These approaches are already being explored and applied across sectors.. We also know that we can achieve industrialisation within the context of a cherished natural world if we have the intent and the imagination..These processes then become highly repeatable, enabling greater levels of automation in construction.

We can turn to techniques such as robotic welding to make the parts, for example, and use popular distribution warehousing equipment on site.Such processes require fewer people and increase worker safety.

In a socially distanced, post Covid-19 world, the advantages are even greater.. Standardisation in construction: making the most of what works best.It’s worth stressing again that standardisation in construction is not a negative, and it’s not unique to platform design either.