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Working standards and efficiency are paramount.

Consultancy models are also likely to change, with a shift away from hourly rates for procured design services, towards an outcome and value-based model.This would work more like app development, where a product developer might identify a need in the market and then create a solution to license, achieving monetisation by selling it repeatedly in the UK and overseas.

This is particularly likely if there’s a focus on design for manufacture and assembly (DfMA).. We’ll also see data driving diversification.People will begin to understand how they can use data to offer different products and services, impacting things like availability and operational performance.In this scenario, capital costs will become something of a blip in terms of the overall service offering being brought to market.. P-DfMA and the UK’s Role within the International Community.

Then there is our work here in the UK with Platform construction (P-DfMA).It’s certainly an exciting possibility that our work with P-DfMA could end up being adopted by the international community.

We saw this happen with BIM standards, which were very quickly adopted as the de facto standards with things like EN ISO 19650.

We’re now starting to see the rest of the world beginning to look towards an industrialised construction approach.Singapore has a strong reputation as a regional innovator and the construction industry is no exception.

In 2010, Singapore’s Building and Construction Authority (BCA) launched the.Construction Productivity Roadmap.

to foster improvement in workforce productivity and greater technology adoption by the industry.. DfMA has been on the radar in Singapore since at least 2014 when it was identified as a key component of the second.Building Information Modelling (BIM) Roadmap issued by BCA.