The manufacturing industry has long enjoyed the benefits of this design to value approach.
Architects can use PRiSM to learn more about PMH techniques, including their rules, opportunities and constraints.Local authorities, housing associations and developers can use the app to drive standardisation across their estates, using a pattern book of apartments to deliver projects more efficiently, and achieving benefits like standardised maintenance regimes.
Manufacturers benefit from learning more about the types of buildings architects working with MMC techniques can design.Contractors can use the app to validate designs and rebuild an architect’s work very quickly.PRiSM can also be used to model schemes for a tender, investigating how much module variation exists within a volumetric modular scheme, for example.. PRiSM 2.0: The Addition of Geospatial Data Layers.
In 2020, Bryden Wood launched PRiSM 2.0, providing more granular control to the user.We increased the typologies contained within the app and expanded the pattern book of apartments to provide additional variety.
We increased design freedom, giving users the ability to do things like reposition entrances in order to better respond to a site.. One of the biggest additions came with the introduction of geospatial data layers, which provide better understanding of the context around a site.
This includes things like building heights, land classifications which reference conservation areas, transport infrastructure to gauge density more appropriately, highways information, which has a bearing on construction access restrictions, and even types of trees..Technological solutions need regulatory change, and other parts will need cross-sector collaboration.. To address the problem requires significant investment in capital and resources.
In short, a complex problem and therefore there are dilemmas.Feedback from the participants demonstrated that the problem is seen as a priority within their business/sector.
This is not ubiquitous, and, in some sectors, there is a lack of market demand and economic momentum..Some parts of the industry are well advanced in their thinking and understanding of this emerging problem, while others are at the early stages.. What defines the dilemma, as much as any measure, are the multiple avenues being investigated to improve the situation.. What defines the dilemma, as much as any measure, are the multiple avenues being investigated to improve the situation.. Reducing usage through changing chemical pathways and process efficiency/intensification, combined with local, in-house recycling demonstrate how companies are looking within to solve most of the problem.