is a whole-project approach, starting with design and working through to assembly.
But is off-site always the best way to achieve these benefits?Construction sites have been around since the dawn of civilisation.
Do we really want to walk away from all that learning, and start moving as much of the construction process as possible into distant sheds?.Is on-site construction really all that bad?.Construction sites could be defined as locations where finished assets are built.
They can be messy, congested, dirty and chaotic places.But they don’t have to be.
If the construction process can be transformed into the streamlined and predictable assembly of pre-manufactured parts, combined with on-site construction processes that are carefully managed to add the maximum value, much greater productivity can result.. To give a slightly left-field example, consider a circus tent.
Typically, these large structures are put up overnight by a small team of trained operatives.However, Lincoln emphasises that Edged’s approach differs, likening these facilities to repeated products that can be continually refined.
'From day one at Edged, my role as Director of Design is really trying to develop our language - call it our ‘kit of parts’ - that is agnostic to site, that can address as much of the range of constraints a site can provide, and that allows us to have repeatable components we can manage, condition, and learn from as we deploy them in projects and see the site adaptation that occurs when we do that.'.By viewing each data centre as part of a coherent system, Edged can design and build with greater efficiency.
Rather than starting from scratch for every project, the team focuses on standardising essential components, creating a ‘platform’ that allows for repeated deployments - each time with lessons learnt fed back into the model.. Why Industrialised Construction makes sense.Traditional construction often requires multiple on-site trades performing one-off tasks, which can be time-consuming, costly, and prone to errors.