Once the government established the BIM requirement, there was propagation to the private sector..
Conversely, a DfMA design is developed to be constructed in a particular way..When designing for manufacture and assembly, the designer must find the best way to meet the client’s requirements by considering the most efficient way to manufacture elements of the building and the most efficient way to assemble them on site.
Manufacturing and assembly processes can be carried out in off-site or near-site factories and consolidation centres and also within the site itself.. DfMA means the designer needs to consider the construction methods that will be used from early in a project.Furthermore, to construct a building that has been designed using DfMA the builder needs to understand the basis of the design and how it has informed the construction approach.This means DfMA can be much more collaborative than conventional design, bringing the designer and builder closer together to pursue a common goal..
There are many different methods of constructing a building.In addition to conventional methods, alternatives have been developed that deploy prefabrication, pre-assembly, design standardisation and/or automation to some degree and these are collectively referred to as Modern Methods of Construction (MMC)..
Exploring the MMC toolkit: from offsite construction to PPVC and beyond.
MMC is the collective term for the innovative construction methods that can be deployed by the DfMA designer.This means it will often support mainstream design behaviours but it won’t push the boundaries of the possible.
It is not the place to find the future of design.It stabilises recent or novel design approaches, but it doesn’t help develop new ones.
Generalised software designed for generalised users produces generalised processes, activities and results.. There’s a place for that approach to automating construction, but it’s not why we’re here.We want to create the change our industry needs – and do it from within our industry.
(Editor: Stackable Toasters)