The internal finishes and walls performed well due to the limited quantity of materials used.

What we are doing at this stage is offering a range of best possible options, to allow the client to decide for themselves the approach they want to follow.This decision is rightly theirs – based as it may be on future flexibility, their assessment of market direction or, not unusually, on commercial considerations that they may not want to share with us.

But it is important that we can demonstrate that the analysis leading to this point is robust and that we have properly considered every angle.This is also a benefit when there are any late entrants to the discussion, to assure them that the analysis and enquiry have been thorough and rigorous.. Case study: an extensive pharmaceutical manufacturing site.In one recent project, we worked on the quality assurance (QA) elements of our client’s operation.

QA covered four distinct areas of manufacturing, both primary and secondary, and small and large module, split across two campuses and 13 separate testing laboratories, each conducting variety of tests and other QA processes It is not hard to imagine the complexity that engendered.And while many people had an understanding of parts of the process, no-one had a complete understanding of the whole picture.. We gathered, consolidated and agreed enormous amounts of site and process data with the client and then assessed, in a variety of ways, each of their laboratories.

We gave each laboratory a consolidated, weighted score based on their effectiveness and considering any known issues (always using visualisations and the agreed common language).. We produced visual analytics of the entire web of processes on site in a way that was clear and, as a result, very powerful: it gave the client the tools to be able not just to see and understand their complex processes in their relative context, but also to discuss them with each other (regardless of specialism and teams) and senior management.. We could then map this analysis against a range of desired objectives and value drivers, to describe dependencies, adjacencies and requirements, and how to be able to measure outputs.

We presented a wide range of variables, for example: density of operations in laboratories by m2; activity in terms of people per m2; test time by laboratory and category of test; laboratory capacity by time taken per test, and by number of tests carried out per year; and so on..He reminds us that post-war housing was built using a kit-of-parts approach and that Roman forts were prefabricated.

A thought-leader and leading author within the MMC/Platform construction space, Johnston talks about the development of the.UK Government’s Construction Playbook.

, whose core policy – harmonise, digitise and rationalise demand – creates a new opportunity to apply a consistent set of technical standards to assets being built across the public sector..This level of standardisation has the capability to create fewer documents and standards, giving the market a much better opportunity to respond, he says.