When a built asset comes to the end of its life, a construction Platforms approach is appealing because it gives us sustainable options for redeployment and reuse.

It’s not really “anything to do with DfMA,” he says, or whether it's a panelised, or volumetric or Platform system.“You're miles away from that if we don't get all of these other ecosystem elements in place to support it.”.

Johnston recalls a bathroom pod project early in his own career, where the beautifully designed, millimetre-perfect pods had to be inserted into a traditionally built building.. Aiming for efficiency in such modular projects carries risk..He says that far too much time was spent fixing the gaps between the manufactured and traditional parts.Whilst the insides of the pods were identical, the outside utility connections were different every single time.

Johnston warns of the knock-on effects of these types of scenarios, where a lack of advanced planning results in a total loss of the intended value.. Marks agrees and says the solution lies in bringing the construction site build portion of projects up to the same accuracy as the modules.. Modular construction.Bringing up the B2 Atlantic Yards project, Amy Marks explains that the problems caused by the module frames not being reset when needed is an easily fixable issue to learn from, not a reason to write off prefab altogether.. For example, lessons learned from the earlier Victoria Hall project in Wolverhampton (which saw tolerance issues between the modules and core structure of the building), did inspire a shift from concrete to structural steel frames on Atlantic Yards.. Further, while she believes it’s possible to achieve tolerances, she says that not every process (ie.

every contract, every scope, every specification) is currently set up for accurate tolerances.

This needs to change, she says, or what we’re aiming to do will be nearly impossible.. “You can't have the same behaviour and think you're going to have some dramatically different result (that's going to be great) all of a sudden.’.While density is increasing exponentially, cooling technology is not.

You could achieve 10x as much density in a given data hall footprint, but the external mechanical and electrical plant will be 10x bigger.This could present an opportunity for manufacturers or suppliers to develop a new suite of products, especially given land cost and pressures.

We know this is happening in the US right now, where a major manufacturer is developing new products for a specific DC owner..Recent news on the release of open-source DeepSeek and its impact on the share price of Nvidia suggests that there may be some striation in the market..