’ report – which came hot on the heels of the Construction Playbook at the end of 2020 – does exactly what the policy says.

Ultimately, when we make MMC and design for precision manufacturing the default option, we’ll be able to make better homes for people.. At Bryden Wood we’re currently working on the New Hospitals Programme, which is the first real enactment of the Construction Playbook.Within the lifetime of that programme, we hope to have fundamentally changed the way physical building is done, the way we use MMC, and the way we deliver assets.

Such a success would pave the way for P-DfMA and other MMC methodologies to be rolled out across other social infrastructure, including schools, social housing and more.We envision that there is likely to be about a ten-year window of opportunity here, and the industry needs to make a start.It also seems likely that within the grand scheme of things on the horizon, the digital work will take longer than the physical aspects, and we should be conscious of that.. Miranda Sharp reminds us that digitising planning and the wider built environment won’t be easy to do.

Some of the necessary work will be boring, and it will be a grind to make the data interoperable and set the transaction mechanisms.Aligning standards, cleaning up data and creating transformation will all take a long time.

The industry wants a silver bullet, it wants to skip to the end, but there’s some fairly heavy lifting to be done first.

Sharp says we need to get better about taking the quick wins.One of the struggles facing traditional construction is the fact that every building is a prototype.

This means, even if (and it’s a big ‘if’) you have some structured, operational data, it only tells you about that particular asset type.You won’t learn anything about the next building you build, as it will also be a prototype.

Construction Platform design unlocks this problem with its consistency of components.This uniformity of build means there is suddenly something meaningful to do with operational data.