Clients need to understand that their project team members might feel uncomfortable about a new and unfamiliar process and we encourage the senior client representative to reassure their team that this is expected and it’s okay.
and we have continued to expand on and optimise Platforms and other MMC methodologies in our work with both public and private sector clients.We’ve never sought to patent our work and we have open sourced the code for both of our construction design apps - SEISMIC and PRISM.
Our goal is to bring about maximum benefit for the wider industry and society.We encourage our clients to join us on this journey by allowing others to benefit from the knowledge and systems we create for each project.This creates a kind of reinforcing circle across the public and private sectors.
By working together, we believe the industry can apply these transformative, design to value processes at scale and thereby deliver enormous benefit for the world..In fact, we’re already seeing a wide range of benefits from the adoption of Platforms (P-DfMA) and our wider approach using modern methods of construction.
Our recent work in the UK with Landsec on a modular office building project has demonstrated the following advantages: the automation of processes leading to a 30-50% reduction in the numbers of people onsite, an increase in safety as a result of reduced work at height, lower capital costs with a 25% reduction in materials due to component optimisation, and a 13% improvement in speed.
Already impressive, we expect these metrics will only continue to improve over time.. Design to Value.Brick Link Studio.
Lego® is an interesting ‘Platforms’ case study in itself and a great example of how standard components do not limit individuality of design.There are also multiple manufacturers of the components.
Since the last patent underlying the brick design expired in 1978 there are numerous legitimate systems such as Megaconstrux and Kre-O which are dimensionally identical to, and therefore compatible with, Lego bricks.. For the purposes of this article, however, I am even more interested in a company called Brick Link.It was set up in 2000, initially called BrickBay, as a marketplace to allow fans of Lego to buy and sell vintage Lego sets and retired pieces.