P-DfMA Platform Design for Manufacture and Assembly

What’s more, the idea of pre-prototyping components before we get to site should mean there is very little left to learn.

The design of each assembly and junction can be pre-tested and individually certified to Passivhaus standards before being included within any design.This approach facilitates the pre-certification of components, panelised systems, building systems for thermal/hygrothermal/airtightness performance, reducing design time and programme..

The repetition of detailing between projects means that a design library of pre-certified components is retained for future projects, making the design process more efficient and quicker..Achieving Passivhaus performance can require an iterative design process to ensure performance during the final stage of construction inspection and testing is achieved.This iterative process can be shortened using BIM integration and digital twins which are inherently part of a DfMA approach..

Increased skill/knowledge/preparation:.Our experience has shown that the automation and design of P-DfMA processes simplifies the construction and the need for a skilled taskforce and their preparation.

It also reduces the number of people onsite, increases safety as a result of reduced work at height, lowers capital costs and improves construction speed.. Passivhaus and net zero carbon challenges.

There is an increasing amount of pressure growing in the construction industry to design net zero carbon buildings, both in terms of operational and embodied carbon.Available to purchase at.Design to Value in the Built Realm..

The complexity of architecture, engineering and building technologies has increased exponentially in recent decades, distorting how buildings are designed, constructed and even conceived.In parallel, architecture has become acutely, myopically object-oriented, celebrating the product rather than the process.

In unison, these routes have led the discipline into a service-centered approach, one that seeks to hastily resolve problems rather than solve them holistically, carefully and analytically.. What if we look past the hospital building and see the journeys of a thousand patients, past the factory and reflect on the launch of a lifesaving treatment, past the data centre and muse upon the millions of connected people.. Design to Value explores just that.. Much design practice has reacted to complexity through specialisation to make it feel more ‘manageable’ – fracturing the building process by elevating expertise.Today, rarely does an architect oversee the entire building process, from analysis to aesthetics, engineering to construction.