Once the price is agreed, the selected suppliers produce the components to set specifications and arrange delivery..

These don’t match up, Marks says, commenting that this is why she went to work at.Ultimately, she realised that she just couldn’t make the level of impact she wanted to by working from the bottom up, within just one small portion of the ecosystem.. Marks says the level of change needed to facilitate a true industry shift to industrialised construction requires a top-down level of influence.

She’s currently writing a book about the topic – ‘The Innovator’s Deception.’ She says she’s starting to see multi-billion dollar companies pushing back.They’re starting to feel dissatisfied with what’s on offer to them with traditional construction and they want something different.. That, says Amy Marks, is how she knows things are going to change..Serial owners and the power of clients to drive change in construction.

The key lies with the big owners.Marks calls them ‘serial owners,’ because they are large-scale, repeat asset builders.

It’s when those big owners start making demands that the shifts occur.

She refers to big-budget school programmes as an example and talks about their need for operational consistency, usually over large geos.HALEY MCLANE, HALEY MCLANE: INTERIOR DESIGN.

Being in the game of designing offices for startups,.knew exactly what she wanted from her own space and it wasn’t a homogeneous desk rental.

Previously she had been working out of a converted whisky distillery in the US city of Boston, so she wanted something that would stand out from the crowd.On arriving in London, she looked at a lot of other potential office suitors and found they were mostly ‘a bit shabby.’ However, as soon as she saw the GWS space she was blown away by the quality of the build and its finish.. She particularly liked how all of the studios were completely customisable, so she was able to bring her own vision into how her space would look, but ‘as soon as you step outside, you get to be part of someone else’s bigger vision,’ she says, gesturing up to the large atrium and studios above.