This also includes the manufacturing location of materials and the transportation distance to site..

The way they produce ATP is by becoming self-charging batteries of 180mV which drives all the processes in a cell.. To get back to scale; do we have one of these in each cell?The answer is no, we have a few 100,000 per cell.

Over millions of years of evolution although much has changed, they have not changed in size, because the size and structure represent a sweet spot for their function.You could say that we have learned similarly in the building of batteries; replicating and combining small cells works much better than trying to create large cells.The body itself carries on the advantages of scaling.

An organ contains some hundred billion cells and the body is made up of about 100 organs and limbs..If we look more broadly into the living world, we can see that size and scale are really important factors in function, efficiency, and survival.

Human beings are not accidentally the size we are.

We’re a size that allows us to travel long distances.We have fundamental problems which need to be addressed.

These include the lack of productisation in construction, as well as the lack of knowledge about DfMA principles and practices.. We have drawings moving back and forth across industry silos from architects and engineers to fabricators and beyond in a way that means “we build things, prefabricated or not, that aren't what was originally upfront in the process,” Marks says.. She believes this is where we will see the most change and brings up Gleicher’s Formula for Change (revised by Dannemiller), where dissatisfaction, vision, and steps toward the vision must be greater than resistance.. “I actually think we’ve hit dissatisfaction at this point,” she says, pointing out the various issues across the industry: construction companies unhappy with the money they’re making, designers unhappy with the roles they’re playing, owners dissatisfied with the inconsistency.. And the question that needs answering now is: “what does the future look like?”.Marks says that her job at Autodesk is to help people envision what that future could be by taking the current building blocks and foundational pieces and expanding on them.

She knows there will be resistance and thinks we’ve got to start thinking about things to be able to combat issues like old thinking, processes, contracts, scopes, and procurement methodologies.. “We've got to be able to highlight the dissatisfaction, show people there's a potential vision up.Nobody changes unless there's something better on the other side,” she says.