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Additionally, some lab operations can be extremely vibration sensitive, and a lightweight steel-framed office might not be the best starting point..

And of course, it doesn’t have to be nuclear.50,000 wind turbines would also deliver the required power, in the world today there are already 350,000.. Industrialisation of the past advanced many things for humans, but it has also led us into this deep furrow.

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.It’s the finer details that change from car to car - the wheels, trim, engine, bodywork… Similarly, Ikea use a limited kit of components to create their various pieces of furniture.

It doesn’t matter whether you’re making a bed, wardrobe or bookcase, most of the connecting pieces are the same.Construction Platforms allow us to apply this same type of thinking to built assets.

Yes, those assets require flexibility, but the need for flexibility doesn’t have to be at odds with standardisation.Using P-DfMA, we can have both..