Tanya Oram

uses data from projects or programmes to create insight into what should be included in the physical ‘kit of parts’.

This is how we’ll create real change.. Kit-of-parts and the Value Toolkit.When the Construction Innovation Hub began, the intention was for a project management strategy focused on iteration and development.

The goal was to develop a kit-of-parts approach that could be implemented with manufacturing processes, assembled in standardised ways, in standardised environments.That still exists, but the Hub is now aware of the need to look at other and bigger elements as well, such as information management..The Construction Innovation Hub is interested in how we can use data more effectively, and how it can be interoperable, reused in different ways by different parties, and throughout the life of an asset.

The Hub will continue to explore how to develop platform construction (P-DfMA), and how people can benefit from it, with an aim of developing guides and rule books, but it’s also now looking beyond modern methods of construction (whether you call that platform construction, offsite, or DfMA), at traditional construction as well.It’s viewing things at an ecosystem level and bringing them all together with elements like the Value Toolkit, which is there to help everyone, but will specifically help clients make better, value based decisions using consistent processes and approaches..

The act of combining that with all of the different approaches to delivering buildings means we’re able to progress delivery, while looking towards the long-term as well.

The Construction Innovation Hub has a year left, during which time it will need to create impact and get the necessary information to prove value.There are standard ways to address all of these value drivers, and many companies to do that.

But to really raise the bar on what can be achieved with data centre design and M&E services, it’s essential to understand the mechanical and electrical systems, the architecture and the structure as being intimately interconnected and fully interdependent.Each of these facets must work in harmony to maximise the potential for optimal data centre design and that is impossible to do when the project is divided up and these areas are treated separately..

It is, however, possible to achieve through an integrated design approach and.Data centres developments have baseline costs like utilities, land, civils and structure...