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Platforms: Bridging the gap between construction and manufacturing (2018).

He talks about Transport for New South Wales, who’ve come up with an amazing, digital engineering framework to set the output requirements they want the industry to meet.Unfortunately, he says, it’s gotten lost in some of the government context of what’s going on there.

The framework is trying to drive large infrastructure programs of work because they’re so complex, and this feeds into health and schools, as well as other government-led projects.On the other hand, in the commercial sector, he believes profit has been the primary motivator.He notes that as the delivery of BIM as a professional service becomes more and more commoditised, value will inevitably be lost, alongside the sense of why the thing is being undertaken.

Rates are also increasing, he says, with less work being done..The role of DfMA and MMC in Australia.

Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DfMA) and Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) are driving new ways of thinking in Australia, with uptake driven by schools and health.

However, Lamont says these methods aren’t in alignment with the old ways of making money, and so MMC costs remain high.We need to try and articulate the way of doing this as clearly as possible.

Some of the work the Construction Innovation Hub is doing now is about bringing together all of the different puzzle pieces.Moreover, it’s important to recognise that the Roadmap to 2030 sets everything out in a way which makes it easier for people to plan, looking at what will happen in the first two years of our progression, then two to five years, and five to ten.

This will enable people to plan, take advantage of opportunities, and evolve.When things are backed up from the client side, the supply chain can have confidence in evolving their approach and the departments will have confidence procuring this way as well.