and the use of manufactured elements in construction.
They want to create an industry.They’re bringing in young people and technology, Marks says..
However, regardless of the country, there are a few elements needed to make the shift to industrialised construction work: purpose, government support, academia, the involvement of young people, training, and complementary parts of the ecosystem - including industry and finance.. Education is a hugely important factor and Amy Marks has now written an eight-week course curriculum for Columbia University.It covers not only prefab but other industrialised construction topics such as how to look at MEP assemblies, manufacturing, automation, robotics, machine learning, AI, and construction platforms.It’s unlike any other course in the world, and that’s the problem, Marks says.
There isn’t anywhere for people to go to learn these things, so we can’t expect them to finish their education and be ready to enter the space.That’s why our team at Autodesk is creating a knowledge centre - to pass on what they know through the software, through the technology..
Leading the change.
According to Amy Marks, we need strong leadership figures in the industry who are going to take risks and be thought leaders.. “Every CEO that comes to me, I'm like, get ready, this is gonna take a lot of money, a lot of time, a lot of effort, you're not going to get there on one project.”.The superstructure is highly dimensionally accurate, with fixings designed in to enable high levels of accuracy in the complementary elements that attach to it.
This accuracy reduces the need for tolerance between interfaces, which is where issues often occur.On The Forge, the tolerance was reduced to.
5mm over a 9m bay..This accuracy also unlocks existing, but underutilised capabilities in the supply chain, encouraging optimisation of their products too.