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Chips are sets of interacting or interdependent components, plus all the data that goes into them.

Importance of mobile and static technology.Green, clean, tidy spaces.

Flexible, multi-use buildings to support education and work-centric activity.Decent staff facilities.A progressive regime.

The PETP team viewed emerging potential design solutions through two key lenses: effectiveness and efficiency.‘Effectiveness’ is the ability of a design to deliver the required rehabilitative outcome, while ‘efficiency’ is the total whole life cost required to achieve this outcome..

This collaborative assessment process included data visualisations and the transparent, objective evaluation of different potential solutions.

The team was able to balance the different and often competing interests of stakeholders using a range of techniques, including use of Virtual Reality (VR) to simulate how the new building would work and help them understand and contribute to the design..There are many construction innovations that can be considered MMC.

The UK’s Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) recently established a Joint Industry Working Group on MMC which proposed the following categorisation: 3D primary structural systems, 2D primary structural systems, Non-system components, Additive Manufacturing, Assemblies and sub-assemblies, Material and Product Innovations and Site Process Innovations.This categorisation is quite diverse and includes a range of pre-manufactured and pre-assembled systems but also non-system components, site-based material innovations and process innovations..

There is no fixed list of MMC methods in each category.There is great scope for the construction industry to innovate and develop new MMC methods to expand the toolkit and enhance the DfMA designer’s ability to achieve benefits on future construction projects..