Existing office façades and finishes may be unsuitable for more stringent lab conditions.. For most office to lab conversions façades will simply require locking of openable windows and general making good.
However, as large serial clients adopt more standardised designs to improve efficiency on construction projects, the benefit of getting closer to supply chain partners is becoming clear..Collecting even simple information about lead times, inventory, and production status helps to identify potential supply problems and enables owners to make more informed decisions.
Using a system that.connects this data into the construction process.explodes the possibilities for transforming efficiency.. KatalystDI’s system gathers construction data from deep in the supply chain, analyses it, and builds it into a new collaborative way of working.. 2.
Too often the ‘now’ trumps the ‘future state’.. We know construction costs have spiralled and variable costs have made the industry think too short-term.This creates ripples in the supply chain and a focus on immediate, urgent problems.. We need to implement more long-term planning to prevent common issues happening repeatedly.
This will be challenging, but as time goes on and datasets improve, reactivity will get quicker, and the process will stabilise as construction supply chain information becomes more freely available.. 3.
Sadly, we don’t have a ‘truth serum’ but improving transparency and consistency of supply chain data improves productivity and planning.. At the moment, suppliers and contractors fix certain problems and course-correct without ever needing to be transparent.. We need a platform that integrates different data sets from different suppliers so we can see and trend what’s going on within the supply chain and create more formal accountability on information being reported..Building platforms move us away from bespoke design and delivery into repeatable, lean methods of construction.
Approaches to standardisation and mass-customisation allow us to adapt solutions to the real world while protecting and massively improving productivity.These approaches are already being explored and applied across sectors.. We also know that we can achieve industrialisation within the context of a cherished natural world if we have the intent and the imagination..
So, curiosity led me to a degree of anxiety at the size of task which confronts us, while also giving me flickers of hope that we have done, and can do, extraordinary things.We need that hope and the energy that curiosity brings to imagine and realise the solutions..