The modular size of small nuclear is critical.
This would be a positive outcome for construction, ensuring those suppliers who were local to a planned project could respond, reducing travel distance and therefore carbon, risk of delivery delays etc..This distribution helps manufacturers to maximise their utilisation; downtime on equipment and operatives contributes to overhead, which is amortised across orders, raising prices and lowering productivity.
Having easy access to long term pipeline (as advocated in the Construction Playbook) will of course help ensure there is less downtime.But being able to use down time to manufacture ‘short’ orders or contribute to a larger order (the consistent specifications making products from different suppliers fungible) will also help increase utilisation and productivity, reducing prices;.It creates a more direct link between global organisations such as those listed above, and manufacturers.
This is a link which rarely exists in construction, where there are typically numerous tiers between the client and manufacturers, introducing enormous economic ‘friction’ and transactional cost.Manufacturers are pre-qualified to relevant standards (such as ISO 9001, but also to specialist medical, aerospace and defence standards including ISO 13485, AS 9100, NADCAP and ITAR).
This would overcome concerns regarding the perceived risk of standardised components and product recall.
In a Platform marketplace, manufacturers would have to demonstrate their CQP process, ensuring performance of components meets the precise brief established by the ‘spatial analysis’ work.He feels these new tools will help architects improve designs, outcomes and generally “achieve better things for clients.”.
In other words, it’s the combination of productisation and technology that becomes the truly enabling factor..Currently, Marks says, “we're letting people design with things that aren't real, and we're letting them make them less real by stretching them, or only looking at geometric shapes.
You actually need discrete data, you need the connection with the maker as the architect.In order to set the right parameters you need generative design, you need multi-dimensional CAD like Revit, you need those things in order to make the right decisions.”.
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