Without duplicating the content from the earlier book, this horizontal assets book highlighted some current, relevant initiatives that were being deployed for clients - including Highways England and Crossrail - that could be replicated as a standardised, P-DfMA approach across a range of horizontal infrastructure projects in the highways, rail and water sectors.. View and download here:.
Working with the Melbourne Cricket Ground, the company is currently using cameras and other technology to map point of sale flows through a spatial model, enabling detailed knowledge about the amount of money flowing through tills and bars at particular points.While it’s true that there is a lot of advanced and valuable work that can be done with these types of permanent installations, we also need to carefully consider the impact of spatial mapping technology on construction sites.
With the example of a photograph, we can check to ensure the photo was taken, and the worker also benefits knowing his job has been done.However, spatial mapping can also be used to evaluate things like crane hook time and positioning, in order to drive productivity benefits.At Bryden Wood, our work with kit-of-parts architecture and platform design for manufacture and assembly (P-DfMA) dramatically increases speed of assembly onsite.
As a result, we’ve seen that inefficient hook time becomes an increasing problem, leaking value from this powerful MMC process.It’s important that we use construction technology to improve these types of issues.. Standards and innovation in the Australian construction industry.
Ultimately, the construction industry needs to find a balance between prescription and innovation.
Lamont believes we need BIM 19650 in terms of language and connectivity to ensure we’re getting the consistency of outcome we require.The biggest environmental impact of data centres is in their use of power and water for cooling, but they are also heavy in terms of embedded carbon.
Carbon is embedded in the structure of buildings as everyone knows, but in data centres significantly more so in the M&E equipment within them.As we optimise the geometry and layout of the structure, plant and systems we can have a positive effect on the amount of embodied carbon in the building, structure and systems.. Our more sustainable approach to close coupling and integration increases efficiency in cooling and distribution losses and also lessens the carbon intensive materials used in these systems.. Our industrialisation and digital design approach allows us to quantify this carbon content during design, and minimise the content through optimisation and materials selection.
It means our clients can make arrangements for carbon offsetting prior to the data centre facility being handed over.. We continue to investigate and take opportunities to make use of the heat that is generated by the cooling of data centres.with provision for heat export suitable for connection to district heating or industrial processes where viable.. We are also working with data centre clients on alternative sources of clean energy; an area where we see significant potential for data centres to become autonomous, and to promote the use of cleaner standby power systems.. A positive future for data centre design.
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