TCN+ is part of the UK Research and Innovation’s (UKRI) Transforming Construction Challenge, along with The Construction Innovation Hub, The Active Building Centre, and a raft of other UK based projects involving academic and industry stakeholders.
The marketplace hosts its own configurator, making it possible to see how the price changes as design decisions are made, and then to procure the exact components needed.This capability would be enormously powerful for Platforms, helping clients and designers see the effect of decisions in real time, in terms of cost but also potentially carbon, social and other value criteria..
The configurator is a piece of software developed to leverage standard components made by the original manufacturer; for construction Platforms it is entirely possible that a range of configurators will be needed, albeit built on some common, open protocols and using common components.Repeat clients may want to create their own configurators linked to their internal business processes, for instance, but the ‘Spatial Analysis’ work could help create a common ‘operating system’ for construction.Brick Link hosts thousands of third parties from which one can select by region, rating, price etc.
In a Platform context this would mean selecting the most local supplier, or one that best aligns to your choice of value driver.It’s a community; as well as a transactional marketplace, people can also share ideas and designs.
As we move forwards, this will be vital to transforming construction; creating a community or ‘movement’ and sharing best practice will benefit us all.. IKEA enhancement.
Ikea is another excellent example of a Platform that most people are familiar with.Taking a 200 m2 house, (10 m x 10 m x 2 storeys, 40 % WWR) as an example, Bryden Wood has done a rough estimation of the impact that Passivhaus distinctive strategies have on embodied carbon:.
Adding triple glazing instead of double glazing would increase carbon around 6 kgCO2/m2 over its lifetime.Adding a MVHR and ductwork would increase carbon by 6.5 kgCO2/m2.
Adding a heat pump would increase carbon by 3.5 kgCO2/m2.Adding insultation (rockwool) thickness in walls from 150mm to 250mm of rockwool would increase carbon by 3.6 kgCO2/m2.
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