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This could include raw material handling, truss packing and shipping, or even wider in the supply chain.. Long term changes supported by simulation and automation.This type of project demonstrates how simulation can support automation in construction, providing dynamic time-based results to design teams and stakeholders to aid in their decision making – particularly highlighting how and where automated processes can provide the biggest benefit for process or cost.
As part of the wider construction industry, these types of approaches will be able to support the large changes that will need to occur within the next decade.From the use of DfMA factories to supply increasing demands for buildings and infrastructure while making best use of diminishing workforce, to integrating the supply chain, and cutting building costs and carbon footprint, the application of DEM as a powerful form of automation in construction is an exciting proposition for the future of the construction industry.Above - in this video, Architecture Director Steven Tilkin describes Bryden Wood's approach to designing a new type of prison [image MoJ].. An innovative approach from an innovative Ministry.The cycle of re-offending is a huge cost to the UK economy.
A 2016 study of a group of offenders who re-offended within 12 months of release from prison estimated that the total economic and social cost of reoffending was £18.1 billion..The Prison Estate Transformation Programme (PETP) was a programme of 10,000 ‘new for old’ adult prison places across six sites (plus one new house block) at an estimated value £1.3 billion.
The full PETP programme was retired and superseded by a new programme, but, at the time, it provided an opportunity to develop a new type of prison environment using a platform based Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DfMA) approach – one whose core purpose was to increase the likelihood of rehabilitation and reduce re-offending rates.
This was used in the design of the two prisons being delivered under PETP (HMP Five Wells at Wellingborough and at Glen Parva) and formed the basis for the current capacity programme.It means a culture of inclusivity; anybody can have an idea, in fact, those not constrained by having been involved in a subject for many years, often ask the best questions and come up with more innovative ideas.
Matching this creativity with open-minded expert knowledge can be very powerful..Above all it means jointly resisting, as long as is responsibly possible, narrowing to a defined solution and only then when it is very clear it matches up to the fundamental purpose and the highest aspirations.
In the discomfort of this process, new ideas will shoot and grow..Professor John Dyson spent more than 25 years at GlaxoSmithKline, eventually ending his career as VP, Head of Capital Strategy and Design, where he focussed on developing a long-term strategic approach to asset management..