As trees age, they absorb less carbon dioxide, so it’s beneficial to replace them.

Some of the necessary work will be boring, and it will be a grind to make the data interoperable and set the transaction mechanisms.Aligning standards, cleaning up data and creating transformation will all take a long time.

The industry wants a silver bullet, it wants to skip to the end, but there’s some fairly heavy lifting to be done first.Sharp says we need to get better about taking the quick wins.The sooner we start, the sooner we’ll reach our goal.

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approach means we are always looking for new ways to deliver the best value solutions for clients.

This sometimes takes us in unexpected and surprising directions.As such, forms of modular will no doubt be part of the future solution..

In the US, there have been several conferences about ‘industrialized construction,’ and players like Katerra and Factory_OS are developing their own vertically integrated offers..Overall, there is a global recognition that a more manufacturing-like approach is needed.

‘Volumetric’ seems to be the first and most obvious starting point, but we believe there is a need for a wider and more sophisticated ecosystem of DfMA.There may be parallels with what happened with BIM.