are a good example; highly standardised, they are identical on every site, only the number and orientation changes and is dictated by the prison population and aspect/prospect of the site.
However, much of this evolution is happening in a piecemeal way.. asBuilt believe the situation is too big for the government to bring entirely under control, and say there are cost overruns for the benefits they’re realizing, which pertain to the inputs.Lamont calls it a case of swings and roundabouts, noting that without action you get nothing, yet once something is prescribed it seems to be too much.
There’s a balancing act required.However, he says that people are genuinely looking for ways to de-risk programs of work and make additional profit.He also notes that programs and build times are coming down, and that people are looking for ways to modularize and make things work.
All of this requires proper digital coordination.The tier one contractors are trying to drive innovation in a different way, he says, and the smaller players are looking for a point of difference..
Conversations about DfMA are also starting in Australia, with some large contractors setting up their own DfMA plants.
However, it really comes down to two, distinct schools of thought.In actual fact, what we really need are low-power devices to gather information about simple things.
We need to know where a particular machine is located, whether it’s vibrating, how noisy it is, and what the light and temperature readings are.. All of this information can be done on devices that are already in plentiful supply.All that’s needed is something like a LoRaWAN network to connect to.
LoRaWAN is a long-range, wide-area network on a different frequency band to WiFi.As a result, it doesn’t compete with cell phones and other devices connected via WiFi on construction sites.