For example, one longstanding client of ours is an industrial plastics manufacturer who is strongly focused on improving their sustainability.
Already impressive, we expect these metrics will only continue to improve over time.. Design to Value.The starting point, and where we must begin in order to truly maximise the benefits that P-DfMA and MMC make possible, is to rework our core processes (design, procure, construct, operate) around a central, driving principle: process-led design.
In other words, we must begin with the manufacture and assembly process in mind.Innovation doesn’t respect discipline or sector boundaries.It needs to sit across the entire operation.
We are interested in increasing quality, productivity, timeliness and cost effectiveness.So we have to ask certain key questions from the outset, like: what’s the least amount of material that could possibly be used to build an asset?
What’s the smallest number of times that asset could be touched or processed by people?
How productive can those people be?.We include and consider as many variables as we can to make sure that the hospital will function as well as it can.. We produce detailed functional and support diagrams to guide the process.
When these diagrams are agreed with our client, we create spatial diagrams, detailing all required rooms, their shapes and the relations between them.This allows us to engage more specialist stakeholders, and make sure their requirements for each of the rooms are met.. We describe this approach as designing the hospital from the inside out.
But we never lose sight of the architectural response to the brief.Creating a beautiful space is a value-driver in itself, with a proven link to clinical outcomes.