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offers valuable insights into the future of data centres and their role in the broader context of sustainable construction and technological innovation.

P-DfMA distils down the variables considerably, providing a smaller number of solutions and components to share across industry, enabling the standardisation of both design and project management processes.Harmonised cross sector requirements unlock the standardisation required to consolidate technical requirements.

P-DfMA is a rationalised approach to design and construction.It simplifies complexity and creates systems in the place of custom requirements at every level, presenting a much more straightforward foundation on which to adopt new safety requirements..The Construction Innovation Hub’s ‘.

Defining the Need.’ analysis of the Government estate identified the most common elements with the greatest potential to deliver the required assets – this was a precursor to the Construction Playbook’s ‘Harmonise, digitise, rationalise’ policy.

One insight was that 3 structural typologies represent most of the Government estate.

These typologies were called Platforms because they embody the common features of multiple assets: structural grids, beams, columns, connectors, slabs etc.There are now a number of companies such as.

, who will provide a bespoke kitchen using Ikea base units.These take the output from the Ikea kitchen configurator as a starting point, to which they add doors in a range of material finishes, handles and worktops.

So new businesses can be built on top of Platform approaches; in this case, addressing a gap in the market for customers who don’t want the expense of a fully bespoke kitchen, but do want some individuality.. What can we learn?.Customers can leverage the benefits of Ikea (economies of scale) while still getting a bespoke outcome.