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Timber shows its maximum potential if it can be continuously reused at the end of a buildings’ lifecycle.

We encourage our clients to join us on this journey by allowing others to benefit from the knowledge and systems we create for each project.This creates a kind of reinforcing circle across the public and private sectors.

By working together, we believe the industry can apply these transformative, design to value processes at scale and thereby deliver enormous benefit for the world..In fact, we’re already seeing a wide range of benefits from the adoption of Platforms (P-DfMA) and our wider approach using modern methods of construction.Our recent work in the UK with Landsec on a modular office building project has demonstrated the following advantages: the automation of processes leading to a 30-50% reduction in the numbers of people onsite, an increase in safety as a result of reduced work at height, lower capital costs with a 25% reduction in materials due to component optimisation, and a 13% improvement in speed.

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.I was involved in the nuclear sector when I was first approached to be an advisor in the UK Government Department of Energy and Climate Change.

I quickly transitioned to a forerunner of the Infrastructure and Projects Authority where I spent nine years in central government before taking on my current role as Programme Director for the Construction Innovation Hub, with the aim of delivering the Construction Sector Deal.I’ve worked through three different governments - Labour, Coalition and Conservative - but through them all there has been an increasing focus on the importance of infrastructure and transforming construction.. One thing I’ve noticed through this period is that we tend to think of ourselves in the engineering community as being innovators.

We think we're quite good at working out what needs doing, but actually, the real skill, and one of the biggest lessons I’ve learned during my time in government, is that working out what to do can be quite easy.It's working out how to get it done that becomes hard.. At present, our focus is on transforming construction into a more future-facing sector.