The Construction Playbook describes how harmonising, digitising and rationalising demand across contracting authorities will 'accelerate the development and use of platform approaches, standard products and components.'. It predicts that 'combined with longer term contracts, this will transform the market's ability to plan, invest and deliver digital and offsite manufacturing technologies' (p.11).
Frameworks can provide consistent pipelines of work that support the planning and investment required to develop digital and offsite manufacturing technologies, and they can enable delivery of improved value through the strategic application of platform approaches, standard products and components.
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The Connect Plus Trial Project highways framework reports how 'improvements to the design were identified that reduced whole life costs and improved the long-term reliability of the works. Such improvements included rationalisation of bolt sizes, improvements to the noise damping systems and additional packing to base plates.' (Annex 3 case study 3). |
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The Department for Education reports that 'Since 2017 DfE has developed standardised school design guides. These design solutions offer a series of fully compliant 'clusters' arranged to a standardised grid dimension of 3.6m which can be brought together in various permutations to achieve layouts that fulfil DfE requirements and suit virtually any site situation'. |
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The Department for Education reports that 'The MMC1 framework was established to cultivate innovation, modernise the industry and increase the capacity of the offsite / MMC market by increasing the adoption of MMC/offsite production in UK construction, in line with the government's presumption in favour of offsite/MMC and the government's industrial strategy. A requirement of this framework is that at least 70% of the construction value of each project is created in a manufacturing environment, then the large-scale assemblies and components are transported to site where they can be rapidly brought together into finished buildings. Bringing a greater proportion of the value creation into manufacturing facilities allows for improved build quality through consistency of workforce, controlled indoor environment, increased quality control inspections, safer working conditions and reduced material waste. Each of the MMC Panel Members, working with their standardised component solutions, is able to create Building Information Models very rapidly from their BIM libraries'. |