Michael Gates

Digitising planning would keep things much more reliable and up to date..

The episode highlighted the importance of collaboration across the entire ecosystem—designers, contractors, manufacturers, and clients must work together.Amy stressed the need for serial owners (those who manage multiple projects, such as healthcare providers or governments) to take a leadership role, demanding and supporting industrialised approaches.

This collaboration ensures that processes and technologies align with shared goals, creating efficiencies and driving innovation.. 5.F. ocus on value, not just cost.A recurring theme was the importance of defining and designing for value.

Whether it’s reducing waste, achieving certainty in project timelines, or meeting sustainability goals, understanding what 'value' means to each client is critical.Amy and Jaimie emphasised that industrialised construction is about delivering outcomes that matter to clients and end-users, not just cutting costs..

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Built Environment Matters.Renewables also have problems to do with dispatch power and consistency, as well as challenges with site locations.

Last summer, which was a still and cloudy one, wind and solar simply didn’t generate as much energy as we would have liked, and at this stage, all of the easiest, most suitable sites (the ones which may have access to transmission, and are very suited to wind and solar projects), have already been taken.. Interestingly, while energy systems modelling for wind and solar power often shows a hockey stick curve, as if the upward trajectory of deployment will continue undeterred, in actual fact, this isn’t the case.Over time, we find that the hockey stick turns into an S shaped curve instead.

In other words, renewables are getting progressively harder to do.In fact, the more we build, the more challenging renewable energy becomes..