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Paul Dunn, executive director at CallisonRTKL<\/a> explores the need for decentralised high tech modular construction<\/h2>\n

Put simply, it seems to me there are three forces accelerating design for offsite manufacture<\/a> and assembly at a pace never seen before.<\/p>\n

Technology<\/h3>\n

Remember Sir John Egan\u2019s \u2018Rethinking Construction\u2019 report in 1998? This analysed the construction industry in the context of trends in manufacturing and service industries.<\/p>\n

And published four years earlier, Sir Michael Latham\u2019s 1994 report entitled \u2018Constructing the team\u2019 wherein the foreword, Latham acknowledged some of his recommendations were \u2018radical\u2019 but stressed the time for choice had arrived.<\/p>\n

Go back further still to Sir Harold Banwell\u2019s report of 1962, even Sir Ernest Simon\u2019s report of 1944 and there is an extraordinary pattern here. Whilst focused on different aspects of the industry, all reports highlighted fragmentation and separation between design and construction. All criticised the industry for entrenched positions, low productivity and underinvestment in technology.<\/p>\n

So, lets fast forward to today. How far has the industry come since Egan in 1998? I believe British design, engineering and construction is amongst the best in the world and huge strides have been made. But there is still an awful long way to go. For me, the overarching message from all the research was \u2013 learn from the manufacturing industry to drive cohesive, integrated, effective, innovative, technology-based solutions. For this to happen we must adopt a product design mindset, and it has begun. Digital engineering<\/a> and offsite manufacturing are revolutionising construction. The time for choice has certainly arrived.<\/p>\n

Global warming<\/h3>\n

Building a resource-efficient construction industry continues to be one of our biggest challenges.\u00a0Other industries \u2013 such as manufacturing, healthcare and technology \u2013 have evolved over the years. They have embraced technological advances and refined their processes and the materials they work with in ways that would be unrecognisable to a worker in the same industry 50 years ago. The construction industry has not changed nearly so much in comparison. Just recently billionaire Bill Gates said \u2018buildings will be the most difficult innovation challenge of the climate crisis.\u2019<\/p>\n

The UK construction industry accounts for approximately 55% of the total annual materials consumption and buildings contribute 50% of total emissions of CO2<\/sub>.\u00a0 BRE reported that buildings are also responsible for 30% of total UK water use and 35% of arising waste. The breakdown of global industrial carbon emissions shows that 55% comes from the manufacture and processing of five stock materials \u2013 steel (25%), cement (19%), paper (4%), plastic and aluminium (3%) \u2013 all of which are prevalent in construction.<\/p>\n

Typically, building one house produces a weight-busting 11 tonnes of waste. That is almost the equivalent of 11 hatchback cars. DEFRA reported that in 2014 the UK generated 202.8 million tons of waste. Construction, demolition and excavation (CDE) was responsible for 59% of that number. No other industry sends as much waste to landfill.\u00a0The glaring, immediate problem is that we are running out of places to put it.<\/p>\n

A global pandemic<\/h3>\n

This has brought extreme challenges to the world of real estate no doubt. Our government continues to advise that wherever possible, people should work at home. It\u2019s effectively been the advice since March. The impact is irreversible, and work style has changed forever. Clearly, demand for office space<\/a> will fall overall and in-arguably, high street retail has been declining for many years. Clearly, shopping centres and out-of-town retail parks also begun to suffer. Big-name retailers continue to slim down store estates and seek rent reductions in a desperate attempt to keep their businesses afloat. These trends were evident well before the pandemic and without doubt, the pandemic has and will continue to challenge struggling retailers to the limit. Sadly, and inevitably, more retailers will fail, putting further stresses on property owners.<\/p>\n

But conversely, the pandemic also brings impetus and opportunity. I believe the coronavirus will be a driver for de-centralisation, making towns and suburbs more walkable\/cycle-able, distributing smaller units of schools, healthcare and workplaces to strengthen local centres and communities.<\/p>\n

So, what does it all mean?<\/h3>\n

Unlike almost all other industries that have innovated, digitised and evolved, ours is yet to fully grasp the opportunities open to us too. As we emerge from this crisis, we must finally change how the industry operates to play our part in the country\u2019s economic recovery.<\/p>\n

Pandemic aside, our planet needed environmentally saving regardless. The Ellen MacArthur Foundation defines the circular economy as one that is restorative and regenerative by design, and which aims to keep products, components and materials at their highest utility and value at all times, distinguishing between technical and biological cycles \u2013 probably our industry\u2019s single biggest challenge. A very brave statement, but we believe we have some ideas responding directly to that, ideas that could reinvent modular construction<\/a> and drive transformational productivity improvements in the industry \u2013 solutions-driven directly in response to the three forces I outline.<\/p>\n

As designers, we recognise the immense contribution we can make in the quest for circular economies in the built environment. It could be argued that traditional buildings are wasteful because the entire ethos around creation and product only relates to the immediate and specific end-user. CRTKL endeavours to augment thinking beyond our building\u2019s users \u2013 we look much wider, to consider everyone who extracts, builds, uses, and disposes of things in a building\u2019s lifecycle. We try not to look at buildings as ‘finished’ products, rather adaptable, reprogrammable machines that can constantly evolve, ideally based on real-time data. Design is never done.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Paul Dunn\"modular<\/strong><\/p>\n

Executive director<\/p>\n

CallisonRTKL<\/a><\/p>\n

Twitter: @CallisonRTKL<\/a><\/p>\n

LinkedIn: CallisonRTKL<\/a><\/p>\n

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