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For plant which are part of chilled water systems, the ancillary equipment is not included in the footprint such as pumps, heat exchangers and pressurisation system..

Spans can be specific to particular clients, but to the operative on site, it's the same yellow bracket, requiring the same torque wrench and two bolts.Platforms enable us to get down to a much more granular level and simultaneously open the door for continual improvement and variability going forward with respect to supply chain choices, material choices and so on.. Maximising value with construction platforms.

Because platform construction uses a limited number of components, it gives us a greater amount of control.We’re able to limit the number of processes and operations which have to happen on site and we can control materials much more accurately.There are also considerable time-saving benefits with P-DfMA, which enable us to spend more time on the design and optimisation of components in the first place.

We put a tremendous amount of effort into component design because we know we’ll be using those same components again and again.Every gram of material you take out of the manufacturing process, out of each assembly process, has a massive multiplier effect in terms of material reduction.

This is an important part of sustainable design.

These processes then become highly repeatable, enabling greater levels of automation in construction.Unexpected things often happen in development, which affect the outcome.

It’s important to stay flexible.Using Chips enabled the success of the Parma project, and structural modelling also enabled design simplification and a quicker timescale.

The project was completed in just 18 months and awarded ISPE facility of the year.. We also successfully created something we called a Factory in a Box pharmaceutical facility.It was built with eight Ghurkas from components delivered in shipping containers.