It’s up to the industry to decide what it looks like.
GSK – quite rightly – have a very strong Health and Safety culture, so the testing threshold was incredibly high.But the system passed, we installed it and it’s working very well.. Also in Stevenage, we worked with GSK on the lab grade water system.
They had a very large system, which had been put in 20 years ago.They wanted to analyse how much of its capacity was used and when, and what its overall condition was.We did a full review, which showed that because conditions had changed since it was designed, it was massively oversized, and not fit for purpose anymore.
As a result, we've done a feasibility study for abandoning the existing system and putting in several smaller plants.This would have multiple benefits, not least in saving on expensive pipe work to carry water long distances, because it's such a large site.
But also, the bigger the pipe loop, the more problems you have with water quality.
We should be installing this new system soon..The DfMA landscape is littered with acronyms, abbreviations and terminology that is often poorly defined and even more poorly understood.
Terms such as DfMA, MMC, Offsite construction, Prefab, PPVC, MiC and many more are often used interchangeably resulting in great confusion not only for newcomers but also established players in the industry..I believe the lack of clarity around nomenclature in the DfMA landscape has become a major barrier to change.
A clear and universally understood definition framework would help increase stakeholder awareness and confidence in adopting innovative construction methods and could help encourage a more structured and focused conversation across the industry at large..The minefield of different terms means there is a tendency to assume that the landscape is complicated but there really is a simple relationship between all these different elements and it starts with DfMA.. DfMA is a design approach.
(Editor: Silent Sofas)