Barriers and opportunities for change:.
They’re bringing in young people and technology, Marks says..However, regardless of the country, there are a few elements needed to make the shift to industrialised construction work: purpose, government support, academia, the involvement of young people, training, and complementary parts of the ecosystem - including industry and finance.. Education is a hugely important factor and Amy Marks has now written an eight-week course curriculum for Columbia University.
It covers not only prefab but other industrialised construction topics such as how to look at MEP assemblies, manufacturing, automation, robotics, machine learning, AI, and construction platforms.It’s unlike any other course in the world, and that’s the problem, Marks says.There isn’t anywhere for people to go to learn these things, so we can’t expect them to finish their education and be ready to enter the space.
That’s why our team at Autodesk is creating a knowledge centre - to pass on what they know through the software, through the technology..Leading the change.
According to Amy Marks, we need strong leadership figures in the industry who are going to take risks and be thought leaders.. “Every CEO that comes to me, I'm like, get ready, this is gonna take a lot of money, a lot of time, a lot of effort, you're not going to get there on one project.”.
She cautions against trying small, single aspects of industrialised construction on one project at a time, as the projects take years to complete and so the learnings are too few and take much too long to achieve.The greater use of consistent, digital workflows through design, procurement and manufacturing will extend into of logistics and labour; predicting operative numbers, positioning them on site and schedule their training and workload.
This level of control is unremarkable in manufacturing, extraordinary in construction.. 2.Standardised labour operations.
The reliance of traditional construction on variable quality of workmanship/skill of the site operative makes it difficult to guarantee that what was drawn and specified is actually what is installed..The design of platform interfaces is so accurate it reduces reliance on skilled trades and workmanship and provides a visual and straightforward Quality Assurance process, for greater consistency and accuracy:.