All of these factors combine to deliver cost and material savings, while using fewer people and increasing productivity.

In a socially distanced, post Covid-19 world, the advantages are even greater.. Standardisation in construction: making the most of what works best.It’s worth stressing again that standardisation in construction is not a negative, and it’s not unique to platform design either.

We’ve found that most clients want a certain level of standardisation.The Department for Education knows exactly what the best performing teaching space looks like.Most residential developers have a pattern book of apartments, which are best suited for their needs.

They don’t want to design from scratch each time.Standardisation makes future maintenance easier.

Where clients want the variability and flexibility is in the massing of the building, the articulation of the material choice and facade design.. We worked very hard with clients in the early stages to make sure that the construction Platforms we developed have enough variability in the areas which will facilitate maximum benefit.

We want to have a Design to Value process which achieves exactly what is desired..The benefits of adopting a process engineering approach.

Adopting a Design to Value approach is achievable.It isn’t magic..

The issue regarding its wider scale adoption is simply that it requires the industry to break with the ideas and processes we’ve been following before.There’s a certain amount of security in taking a brief and just doing what has been asked of you.