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The same brackets are used consistently and they are colour-coded.This makes it easy to teach people how to do the assembly and they become very quick at doing it.
However, the beams and columns can be any length.Spans can be specific to particular clients, but to the operative on site, it's the same yellow bracket, requiring the same torque wrench and two bolts.Platforms enable us to get down to a much more granular level and simultaneously open the door for continual improvement and variability going forward with respect to supply chain choices, material choices and so on.. Maximising value with construction platforms.
Because platform construction uses a limited number of components, it gives us a greater amount of control.We’re able to limit the number of processes and operations which have to happen on site and we can control materials much more accurately.
There are also considerable time-saving benefits with P-DfMA, which enable us to spend more time on the design and optimisation of components in the first place.
We put a tremendous amount of effort into component design because we know we’ll be using those same components again and again.For example, finance can use it to determine Cost of Goods, amongst other things.
Chip Thinking®️ brings together different perspectives and allows people to see what an early representation of a project looks like.It is illuminating, for example, to combine Chip Thinking®️ with other Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) tools, such as discrete event modelling, which enables us to evaluate issues like where goods will move and how long things will take in each step..
This way of working also allows us to test things very quickly.We can test different scenarios and the modelling will follow.