The prospect of the retirement of that fleet is highly unattractive for most of those owners and investors.
MEP cassettes, which efficiently combine key components and processes.Individual spaces e.g.
a patient room, which has certain needs, regulations.Group of spaces e.g.complex departments such as operating theatres, where all aspects of the room are dependent on each other to work properly.
Whole asset e.g.when a Reference Design can be repeated as a fixed design c.f.
MoJ houseblocks.
The image below is an example..This is a missed opportunity, as all parties should be working together to advance the whole industry in this regard.
Regulations should have a significant and authoritative amount of input as they are developed, particularly given the long-term nature of the work, with buildings expected to last between 60-100 years.Equally, spending more time in the design phase of a project would enable us to truly understand the brief and open up the problem statement, ultimately preventing projects beset with difficulties as a result of a lack of planning.. One challenge we’ll face going forward is that, as innovation increases and we begin to iterate more quickly, the lag between innovation happening and standards struggling to keep up, will begin to get in the way.
The construction industry will need to find better ways to reach a consensus faster and deliver better outcomes.Adopting more open source methods, perhaps akin to Wikipedia, could offer a solution.